![]() ![]() ![]() After all, the first chapter was published in 1996. A centrist power structure that is threatened by the right but can’t seem to do anything but protect the status quo, invariably taking the fascists’ side when left and right clash.īut author Jason Lutes had no such roman à clef in mind when he set to work on his epic graphic novel series Berlin. A rising racist right vowing to restore a country’s greatness, baying for blood and attacking the left in the streets. An insurgent left agitating for drastic political reform. ![]() New social norms around sex and gender clashing with conservatism. It seems too easy to draw comparisons between 1930s Germany and the US today, but the parallels are inescapable: A society reeling from an economic collapse a decade before. Few events in Berlin occur without incorporating the politics of the time (courtesy Drawn & Quarterly) ![]()
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