Freistaat Flaschenhals

Set in the historical oddity of the post-World War I "Free State of Bottleneck," this German comic series from Carlsen Comics blends fact with farce. Created by writer Marco Wiersch and artist Bernd Kissel, it follows the absurdly resourceful inhabitants of a tiny, forgotten territory cut off from the rest of the Weimar Republic. The series turns a little-known slice of history into a warm, swashbuckling comedy of survival.