Jason Lutes Bücher

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.

Mit »Berlin« gelingt dem amerikanischen Comic-Autor Jason Lutes ein kunstvoller historischer Roman in Bildern, dessen exakt recherchierte Stadtansichten und Milieustudien ein beeindruckendes Zeitpanorama entfalten. Nun erscheint endlich der Abschlussband der Trilogie, deren Handlung im September 1928 einsetzt und im Januar 1933 endet. »Weist alle Qualitäten eines anspruchsvollen historischen Romans auf.« FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU »Unverstellt, manchmal grausam, zeigt Lutes die soziale Realität der Zwischenkriegszeit.« DER TAGESSPIEGEL »Musterbeispiel der Gattung... Jason Lutes ist ein Virtuose des Comic-Handwerks.« FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

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

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.

Uses a graphic presentation to offer a meditation on love, loss, magic, and dreams in a story featuring Ernie, an alcoholic stage magician, his former girlfriend Esther, and small time grifter Nathan Lender and his twelve-year-old daughter Claire

Scheming to attain a better life for his daughter Claire, a small-time con man named Nathan Lender coerces unemplyed magician Ernie Weiss into teaching her magic. Along for the ride is Al Flasso, Ernie's aging mentor, whose flight from a nursing home forces all four into living out of Narthan's car in the cavernous space beneath a freeway. As Claire's tutelage progresses and tension mounts between Nathan and Al, Ernie becomes increasingly obsessed with his brother's possible suicide. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure draws nearer by the moment bearing with it either new hope, more trouble, or both.