6/1/2023 0 Comments Berlin by jason lutes![]() (He will appear in conversation with comic artist Megan Kelso at Elliott Bay Book Company on November 8. Product Details Price 39.95 37. ![]() Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlinis one of the great epics of the comics medium. ![]() 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. Weimar Berlin was the worlds metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Drawn and Quarterly has just published the final part of Lutes's municipal trilogy in a single, gorgeous, door stopper of a collection. 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. 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. ![]() 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? During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. ![]()
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