![]() ![]() 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. an ending so electrifying that I gasped."― New York Times Book Reviewĭuring the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. ![]() "The magic in Berlin is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space. Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post, New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and more! ![]()
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