New Releases by Jason Lutes

Mehr als 20 Jahre lang arbeitete Jason Lutes an seinem großen Comic-Roman über das Berlin der niedergehenden Weimarer Republik. Kunstvoll erzählt und exakt recherchiert entfaltet sich ein beeindruckendes Zeitpanorama, in dem der amerikanische Zeichner die Entwicklung von 1928 bis hin zur Machtübergabe an die Nationalsozialisten durch sämtliche gesellschaftliche Schichten nachverfolgt. Diese Neuausgabe vereint Jason Lutes' epochale Comic-Trilogie erstmals in einem hochwertigen Band. Das Großformat lässt seine detaillierten Zeichnungen und Berlin-Studien in frischem Glanz erscheinen und sorgt für ein völlig neues Leseerlebnis. Ein Anhang mit Skizzen und Einblicken in Jason Lutes' Arbeitsprozess runden das Buch ab.

Indicado ao Eisner e ao Harvey Awards; vencedor de dois prêmios Excellence in Graphic Literature. Fruto de mais de 20 anos de dedicação, Berlim, de Jason Lutes, é um épico sobre a ascensão do nazismo em uma das mais efervescentes e cosmopolitas cidades europeias do século 20. Considerado pela crítica internacional uma obra-prima e um marco na história dos quadrinhos, o livro é um retrato multifacetado da Berlim dos anos 1920: os cabarés, a vida operária, a vanguarda artística, a intelectualidade de esquerda, os comunistas enfrentando nazistas nas ruas e uma sociedade escorregando à vista de todos para a brutalidade fascista. Usando recursos que só os quadrinhos proporcionam, Lutes faz, na forma de um romance emocionante, um retrato do trágico declínio da República de Weimar pelos olhos de seus cidadãos. Marthe Muller, uma jovem que troca a vida burguesa em Colônia pela libertária Berlim; Kurt Severing, um jornalista idealista que perde a convicção na palavra impressa à medida o extremismo e o fascismo avançam; os Brauns, uma família dilacerada pela pobreza e pela política. O livro acompanha a vida desses personagens conforme a cidade, onde a intelectualidade, a criatividade e a liberdade prosperaram, vai se despedaçando.

"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living." Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of The Handcuff King's life, centering on one of his most famous feats. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason Lutes and artist Nick Bertozzi reveal Houdini's life and influence: from the antisemitism Houdini fought all his life, to the adulation of the American public from his hounding by the press, to his loving relationship with his wife Bess from his egoism to his insecurity from his public persona--to the secret behind his most amazing trick! And it's all in graphic form, so it's fresh, original, and unlike anything previously published about this most fascinating of American showmen.

"Originally serialized in the comic book 'Berlin,' in issues 17 through 22, published by Drawn & Quarterly"--Copyright pag

Nach dem Erfolg des ersten Bandes BERLIN - STEINERNE STADT legt Jason Lutes nun die Fortsetzung der Geschichte um die junge Studentin Marthe Müller und den Journalisten Kurt Severing vor. Eindringlich, detailliert und historisch fundiert erzählt Lutes von den Ereignissen am Vorabend des Dritten Reiches. Die Kämpfe zwischen Kommunisten und Nationalsozialisten werden heftiger, und die Stadt gleicht einem Pulverfass. Das Nachtleben Berlins bietet viele Möglichkeiten, die bittere Realität wenigstens zeitweise zu vergessen. Die amerikanische Jazzband Cocoa Kids wird für eine Weile einer der hellsten Sterne an Berlins Nachthimmel, doch die farbigen Musiker haben keinen leichten Stand...

Haunted by a failed romance and the death of his escape-artist brother, Ernie Weiss is a washed-up stage magician whose remaining hope lies in his ageing mentor, Al Fosso. But Al is slipping further into senility with each passing day. Meanwhile, Esther O'Dea, Ernie's ex-love, struggles to find peace in her own life, and then a con-man named Nathan Lender sets some mysterious plans in motion that will affect the futures of them all. Fascinating and tragicomic, Jar of Fools is a classic of its genre.

Ciudad de piedras: "...Alemania en las horas sombrías de la república de Weimar. El periodista Kurt Severing y la estudiante de arte Marthe Müller son las figuras centrales de un elenco de personajes entrelazados con los hechos históricos que se desarrollan...en Berlin, desde septiembre 1928 hasta el Primero de Mayo 1929"--P. [4] of cover.

Set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic, City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters who embody the hopes and struggles of Berlin's inhabitants as their future is darkened by a growing shadow. Fascinating. -Publishers Weekly. [Berlin] will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium...[T]his book has the density of the best novels. --Time.

Thriller qui met en scène un jeune employé se retrouvant malgré lui embarqué dans une histoire qui le dépasse.

In BERLIN – Steinerne Stadt erzählt Jason Lutes die Geschichte der jungen Studentin Marthe Müller und den Journalisten Kurt Severing in den Wirren der Weimarere Republik. Eindringlich, detailliert und historisch fundiert erzählt Lutes von den Ereignissen am Vorabend des »Dritten Reichs«.

To be completed in 24 serialized installments, a critically acclaimed graphic novel trilogy spanning the brilliant and dangerous years of the Weimar Republic of Germany. Artists, journalists, communists, fascists, police, poets, lovers and workers cross paths while they dance the decadent city of Berlin into the arms of growing fascism.