![]() ![]() In advance of the TBF booksigning – Lutes will be presenting Berlin, in conversation with author Alexander Chee, on Sat., Oct. His realist cityscapes are exacting, his characters' faces uniquely expressive … Sometimes whole pages of pictures, without words, tell us everything.” “Berlin is a veritable compendium of cartooning techniques. ![]() “Lutes' mastery of his medium cannot be overstated,” writes Pamela Polston in her review for Vermont’s Seven Days. And don’t those visuals require, for most effective communication, a commensurate level of skill? Rest assured, reader. The writing’s so damned good and that’s the main reason, we reckon, that Lutes will be among the many authors and/or literary celebrities at this year’s Texas Book Festival.īut Berlin is a graphic novel, and so there’s visuals to be considered, too. ![]() The story Lutes reveals is of impressive and engaging depth, following the lives of a diverse cast of characters who must struggle to survive the coming horrors, yes, but who also, like all of us, must weather the quotidian troubles of human existence no matter what orchestrated violence threatens to rend the world. And the name of the man who captures that time in a graphic novel that he’s been writing and drawing for more than 20 years, a graphic novel now released in one elegant 580-page hardcover edition by Canada’s Drawn & Quarterly, the name of that man is Jason Lutes. ![]()
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