Berlin (1996 Drawn and Quarterly) comic books 2015-2017
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Issue #19
Published May 2015 by Drawn & Quarterly.$5.50
$5.50
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Cover by Jason Lutes. Script and art by Jason Lutes. The spring of 1932 brings about big changes for everyone, Jew and Gentile, communist and nationalist. Silvia Braun, rescued from the streets by the Schwartz family, can no longer tolerate the harsh rules of the family patriarch, and sets out on her own. Anna, Marthe's lover, is in a deep funk after a disastrous confrontation with Nazis. The ties that bind together Marthe, Anna, and Kurt fray beyond repair, leaving Marthe struggling to figure out her path. Carl von Ossietzky, Kurt's editor, is sent to prison on charges of high treason and espionage. On every front, the storm clouds are gathering. 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #20
Published May 2017 by Drawn & Quarterly.$6.00
Story and art by Jason Lutes. With its twentieth issue, one of the biggest graphic novel events of the early 21st century is fast-approaching—the completion of Jason Lutes epic Berlin series. Here, the inevitable antagonist of the tale of pre-WWII Germany begins to take center stage. Marthe and Kurt find their way back to each other—he, from the bottom of the bottle and she, from a one-sided relationship. Fascism creeps into every corner of society, but some can see it better than others. 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #21
Published Sep 2017 by Drawn & Quarterly.$6.00
Story and art by Jason Lutes. The penultimate issue of the long-running series finds Silvia Braun and David Schwartz joining forces to sabotage a neighborhood National Socialist outpost, while Marthe Müller says her final farewells to the city where she has come of age. And as darkness manifests in the alleyways of the underclass and estates of the elite, Kurt Severing glimpses the worst of all possible futures. 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.
