For the past several years he’s been working at the Center for Cartoon Studies, a two-year MFA program in Vermont, and his students have followed his progress closely. He says he’s happy that it’s finally done, and his wife and children are happy too. Lutes hasn’t been pursuing it single-mindedly-he’s published shorter one-off works in the intervening years, and has forged an academic career as well-but completing the two-decade opus affords him an opportunity to reflect on the significance of this literary achievement. The last issue hit store shelves in March, and the final completed collection - Berlin Book 3: City of Light - will be published in September, along with a full three-volume edition. The series, which depicts the rise of the Nazis in Weimar-era Germany between the two world wars, is finally finished. When Jason Lutes began sketching the first pages of his acclaimed comic series Berlin back in the mid-’90s, he had no idea it would take until 2018 to complete it.
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