A mere twenty-two years later, ironically matching the number of single issues the series comprised in that time, we have finally arrived at its conclusion. I will remain where I have found love where people fight in the street where I can feel the world spinning underfoot."īack in April 1996 issue #1 of what was destined to become a true comics classic arrived on comics retailers' shelves, with absolutely no idea of what stoic patience would be required of the loyal faithful that read it, adored it and decided to sign on for the long haul. Sometimes it frightens me, sometimes it terrifies me - but I still wake every morning in anticipation of the city's next surprise. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium."In Berlin I have found the world - the great, messy, beautiful world beyond the hedge surrounding the haute-bourgeois home of my youth. 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 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. Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism.ĭuring the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age.
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