7/5/2023 0 Comments Berlin by Jason Lutes![]() ![]() Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes’ masterful hand. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. ![]() Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.īerlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens―Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. ![]()
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