![]() ![]() ![]() (He will appear in conversation with comic artist Megan Kelso at Elliott Bay Book Company on November 8. This black-and-white historical narrative, written and illustrated by Lutes, collects eight volumes of his ongoing comic book set in Berlin during the late 20s. ![]() The project took Lutes more than 20 years to complete, an accomplishment reflected in the depth of the storytelling and the detail of his drawings. Lutes weaves these characters lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. ![]() Drawn and Quarterly has just published the final part of Lutes's municipal trilogy in a single, gorgeous, door stopper of a collection. This sale is for Berlin TPB 1-3 by the incredible Jason Lutes. That feeling pervades former Seattle cartoonist Jason Lutes's exquisitely drawn historical graphic novel Berlin, which tracks the fall of the Weimar Republic and the clashes between fascists and communists in the city. You know that feeling when you're watching cable news and you realize the power of propaganda so totally eclipses the power of journalism that you don't even know what's real anymore? You know, those mornings when you look out the window, if you're lucky enough to have a window, and you feel like it's all going to collapse, or maybe it already did and you're just watching the fallout in slow motion? Berlin, a graphic novel set in the Weimar Republic, from 1928 to 1933, was released this month by Drawn and Quarterly, the Montreal imprint known for publishing some of the world’s foremost. ![]()
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