Berlijn

In 2009, the Dutch publisher Atlas Contact began releasing Berlijn, a two-issue series that collects the acclaimed, sprawling graphic novel by American cartoonist Jason Lutes, with Dutch translation by Toon Dohmen. This monumental work, originally serialized over decades, meticulously chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners as the city slides toward the rise of Nazism in the late Weimar Republic. Lutes’s precise, humanistic linework and deep historical research make this a landmark of literary comics, offering a quietly devastating portrait of a society in collapse.