Berlin (1996 Drawn and Quarterly) comic books 2007-2009

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Story, Art and Cover by Jason Lutes. Tensions mount as the stock market crash of 1929 takes a devastating toll on the people of Berlin. Marthe and Anna are oblivious, drinking and dancing until dawn to the sounds of the Cocoa Kids, but a surprise visitor from Marthe's past provides a rude awakening. Meanwhile, Kurt grapples with the complications of the political situation and finds himself sliding deeper into despair. 28 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.

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Story, Art and Cover by Jason Lutes. Escalating arguments involving politics have brutal consequences. As orphan Silvia Braun visits her new friend's wealthy Jewish family and ponders the moral implications of monarchy, Marthe Muller receives an unexpected visit from her mother. Meanwhile, American jazz band the Cocoa Kids are on their way to becoming a fixture of the city's nightlife, and Kurt Severing finds himself in the middle of an impassioned public demonstration. 28 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.

Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; The penultimate chapter to Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume in Jason Lutes' trilogy about the decline of the Weimar Republic, finds its broad cast of characters searching for solid footing in a chaotic cityscape; The relationship between Pavel the scavenger and the orphaned Silvia Braun comes to a painful end, while tensions rise between the Cocoa Kids and their German manager; Meanwhile, Kurt and Marthe struggle to come to peace with their failed romance and the different ways they view changing world. 28 pgs., B&W. $3.50. Cover price $3.95.

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Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; Blood spatters the street, a life's work goes up in flames, and lovers take flight in the final chapter of Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume of the epic trilogy; Against the backdrop of the 1930 Reichstag elections, in which the National Socialists gain unprecedented political power, those citizens who have not yet chosen sides are forced to walk the knife's edge of history as it cuts irreversibly through their lives; Nazi assaults Communist, black confronts white, and Kurt Severing struggles with the futility of using language itself to strike at the dark heart of human nature. 28 pgs., B&W. $3.50. Cover price $3.95.