Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of German citizens to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can replace democracy. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. The third and final act of Jason Lutes’ historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. The thrilling conclusion to a masterful graphic novel trilogy that follows Berlin citizens as Nazism rises Hardcover | 592 pgs | black & white | $44.95 USD / $49.95 CADīERLIN BOOK THREE: CITY OF LIGHT BY JASON LUTES Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. Weimar Berlin was the world’s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline.
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 will be one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its 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 One 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. Serialized in twenty-two issues, collected in two volumes, with a third to be co-released at the time of this omnibus, Berlin has over 100,000 in print. Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazismĭuring the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age.
This September, we are releasing Berlin by Jason Lutes, thus concluding a twenty year masterwork that looks through ordinary people’s eyes to observe the transformation of the German city from a liberal metropolis into a fascist stronghold… in stores September 4
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