Jason Lutes' BERLIN: CITY OF STONES is a work of sprawling scope and elegance that both fulfills the promise of his first work (JAR OF FOOLS) and blazes forward with a confidence and control that's utterly masterful. Drifting with an almost Altman-like whimsy between a small cast of characters in Berlin from September 1928 to May Day, 1929 - writers, artists; workers, mothers; haves and have-nots all come together and fall apart as the terrible shadow of the Third Reich fall across the old Weimar Republic and asserts itself and its power.
BERLIN: CITY OF STONES is an assured and literate work that captures not only a calamitous time, but creates personal portraits of the people living through it.
Matt Fraction splits his time between motion graphics and design house MK12, writing comics, and reading comics. He is the author of the graphic novels The Annotated Mantooth and Last of the Independents, both available from AiT/Planet Lar. He can be found on the web at mattfraction.com. His wife is hot.
