Berlin #3

Jason Lutes's sweeping graphic novel trilogy reaches its third and final volume with Berlin: Ville de Fumée — "City of Smoke" — published by Éditions Delcourt in 2019. The cover's muted, sepia-toned illustration sets a quietly ominous tone: a stretch of industrial cityscape, a tall smokestack rising against a bleak sky, and a forbidding fence running along the foreground, evoking the weight of a city under mounting pressure. It's a fitting visual introduction to what promises to be a resonant conclusion to one of graphic literature's most ambitious portraits of Weimar-era Berlin.