![]() 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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