Berlin by Jason Lutes

Berlin by Jason Lutes

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.

Jason Lutes was born in 1967 in New Jersey and grew up reading superhero and Western comic books. He found Heavy Metal magazine and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons in the late 1970s, both of which had a significant impact on his artistic growth. Lutes earned a BFA in art from the Rhode Island School of Design, and in 1993 he began creating Jar of Fools, a weekly comic strip for Seattle's The Stranger. Lutes teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, where he lives with his partner and two children.