![]() ![]() But I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I hadn’t followed through on it.” I did think of giving up and doing something else. About halfway, there were financial struggles, other pressures. But even so, I don’t recognise the person who did that strange thing.” “At that point, admittedly, I only thought it would take me 14 years to do. “It was quite a commitment to make at the age of 28,” he says, wryly. It would be 600 pages long and he would publish it in three instalments. The plan – it came to him in an instant – was to write an epic comic about the end of the Weimar republic and the beginnings of Nazism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here it was in black and white: his next project. He knew almost nothing about the city beyond what the copywriter at this university press had to say about it. The ad briefly described the German capital in the 1920s, with its wild cabarets, seedy bars and jostling population of artists, architects, writers and philosophers, and in as long as it took him to read it, his life was changed. I n 1996, Jason Lutes, a cartoonist with just one slim graphic novel to his name, was leafing through a magazine in the house he shared in Seattle when his eye fell on an advertisement for a book of photographs about Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin. ![]()
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