Berlin

Jason Lutes’s Berlin is a sprawling, meticulously researched graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly, serialized from 2018 onward in a single, monumental volume. Set in the waning years of the Weimar Republic, it weaves together the lives of a diverse cast of characters—from journalists and artists to working-class families—as political and social tensions escalate toward the rise of Nazism. Lutes, the series’ sole writer and artist, is celebrated for his precise, cinematic black-and-white linework and deep historical empathy, making Berlin a landmark work of historical fiction in comics.