Best Selling Books by Jason Lutes

"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.

Uses a graphic presentation to offer a meditation on love, loss, magic, and dreams in a story featuring Ernie, an alcoholic stage magician, his former girlfriend Esther, and small time grifter Nathan Lender and his twelve-year-old daughter Claire.

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

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.

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«.

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...

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes'' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany''s Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Berlín, que ahora se recopila en una edición integral en rústica, es una de las obras más ambiciosas que se hayan realizado en forma de novela gráfica. Jason Lutes se distancia de los grandes personajes de la política, para centrarse, a través de las vidas de un pequeño grupo de berlineses, en el ascenso del fascismo y la rapidez con la que puede reemplazar a la democracia. La mayoría de los habitantes de Berlín sigue su día a día sin percatarse de la amenaza que se cierne sobre su existencia. Mientras tanto, el periodista Kurt Severing y la artista Marthe Müller miran con horror cómo su sociedad comienza un vertiginoso descenso al extremismo.Berlín es una obra monumental elaborada a lo largo de veintidós años que muestra, a través de los ojos de la gente corriente, la transformación de la ciudad alemana de una metrópolis liberal a un baluarte del fascismo. El autor, Lutes, comenzó a publicar Berlín, de forma serializada, en 1996. Fue elegida en 2005 como una de las 10 mejores novelas gráficas de todos los tiempos por la revista Time. Ha ganado cinco premios Eisner, dos Ignatz y un Harvey. Confiesa que sabía muy poco de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero que un vídeo que vio en clase de historia sobre los campos de concentración le impactó profundamente. "La imagen que se me quedó grabada fue la de un bulldozer empujando pilas de cuerpos, pilas de cadáveres demacrados dentro de las fosas", confiesa horrorizado, y señala que desde entonces ha "tratado de darle un sentido". Más de una década después, cuando ya había empezado a dibujar Berlín, se dio cuenta de que había canalizado su obsesión hacia la ciudad. Quería entender qué ocurre antes del desastre: "Es el periodo antes de que estalle la tormenta y se desate el infierno"

The second installment of the epic historical trilogy The second volume of Jason Lutes''s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American jazz band Cocoa Kids arrives and quickly becomes a fixture. The lives of the characters within Lutes''s epic weave together to create a seamless portrait of this transitory city. Marthe Muller follows her lover Kurt Severing as he interviews participants in the May Day demonstration, but she moonlights in the city''s lesbian nightlife.Severing acts as a window through which the political shifts within the city and its participants can be seen. As with Berlin Book One: City

" Berlin, la cité des pierres " est la première partie d''un captivant récit imaginé par Jason Lutes. Les personnages principaux de ce roman graphique, le journaliste Kurt Severing et l''artiste peintre Marthe Müller, évoluent au milieu d''événements historiques dramatiques, au temps des heures sombres de la république de Weimar. " La Cité des pierres " couvre une période de huit mois passés à Berlin, de septembre 1928 au ler mai 1929, et reconstitue méticuleusement les espoirs et les combats de ses habitants, au moment où leur futur semble s''obscurcir devant la montée d''une ombre menaçante.

Dans ce deuxième volume de la fresque épique imaginée par Jason Lutes au temps de la République de Weimar, nous retrouvons le peuple allemand aux prises avec les interrogations suscitées par les événements du 1er mai 1929. Désormais liés par la passion, le journaliste Kurt Severing et l''artiste peintre Marthe Müller poursuivent leur engagement esthétique et militant. Le développement des idées nazies semble irrésistible mais, devant la montée des discours guerriers, la vie nocturne de Berlin paraît plus active que jamais, entre boîtes de jazz et égéries lesbiennes. Crise économique, antagonismes politiques, élite indifférente et racisme ambiant, toute ressemblance avec l''époque contemporaine n''étant pas fortuite...

"Collection of comic strips that originally appeared in newspaper form... and which deal with the language of comics in a humorous way."--Poopsheet Foundation.