Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.

The second installment of the epic historical trilogy The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929\. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American jazz band Cocoa Kids arrives and quickly becomes a fixture. The lives of the characters within Lutes’s epic weave together to create a seamless portrait of this transitory city. Marthe Muller follows her lover Kurt Severing as he interviews participants in the May Day demonstration, but she moonlights in the city’s lesbian nightlife.Severing acts as a window through which the political shifts within the city and its participants can be seen. As with Berlin Book One: City

The conclusion to a masterful graphic novel trilogy that follows Berlin citizens as Nazism rises The third and final act of Jason Lutes’s historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of Germans to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can replace democracy. The idle rich, the naïve bourgeoisie, and the struggling lower classes: all seek meaning in the warring political factions dividing their nation. He especially focuses on the Brauns—a working\-class family torn apart by a political system that doesn’t care about them. Lovers couple and uncouple; families and friends share rituals and laughter; most of Berlin’s citizens go about their day with little sense of the larger threat to their existence. Meanwhile, the journalist Kurt Severing and the artist Marthe Muller watch in horror as their society begins a dizzying descent into extremism.

Mehr als 20 Jahre lang arbeitete Jason Lutes an seinem großen Comic-Roman über das Berlin der niedergehenden Weimarer Republik. Kunstvoll erzählt und exakt recherchiert entfaltet sich ein beeindruckendes Zeitpanorama, in dem der amerikanische Zeichner die Entwicklung von 1928 bis hin zur Machtübergabe an die Nationalsozialisten durch sämtliche gesellschaftliche Schichten nachverfolgt. Diese Neuausgabe vereint Jason Lutes' epochale Comic-Trilogie erstmals in einem hochwertigen Band. Das Großformat lässt seine detaillierten Zeichnungen und Berlin-Studien in frischem Glanz erscheinen und sorgt für ein völlig neues Leseerlebnis. Ein Anhang mit Skizzen und Einblicken in Jason Lutes' Arbeitsprozess runden das Buch ab.