Halbwelt

In the crime-ridden underworld of 1920s Berlin, Halbwelt (2009–present, Wildfeuer Verlag) follows the intersecting lives of gangsters, grifters, and those caught in their orbit. Across its two issues, artist Achim Danz brings a gritty, atmospheric realism to the series' shadowy streets and smoky cabarets. This German comic stands as a focused, period-noir snapshot of the Weimar Republic's seedy underbelly, capturing the tension between desperate survival and fleeting glamour.