A beautifully drawn graphic novel depicting Berlin between the wars. The plot is a little bit convoluted due to the many different characters, but overall I think it's more about the atmosphere than the plot anyway. ( )

Berlin: City of Stones, according to the magazine Time, is one of the best graphic novel ever written.

Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes is supposed to be a graphic novel series describing life in Berlin between WWI and WWII. The main characters of book one are an art student (Marthe Mueller) and a journalist (Kurt Severing), a second story line tells about a family who decides to follow the main political streams: mother and daughter join the communist party, while father and son join the Nazis.

In Germany, following World War First, a new government called Weimar Republic is established ; this new parliamentary republic has to face many problems: economic, extremism on the left and right political parties. Weimar Republic ends with the beginning of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Back to Berlin: City of Stones, the drawings of this graphic novel are very impressive, black and white shows and tells brilliantly the History of these years.

A last thought / question: Is Kurt Severing the double of Walter Benjamin (without mustache)?

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jason lutes breaks my heart in the most welcoming way ... ( )

It's hard to read this and not compare it to Maus. So sue me.

There are lots of good and interesting things about this graphic novel; however, it just felt like it simmered but never came to a boil. ( )