Berlin (comics)

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Creative team
Berlin: City of Stones, Book One
Cover of Berlin: City of Stones (Book One)
Publisher	Drawn and Quarterly
Format	limited series
Publication date	2000
Number of issues	1-8 (Compiled)
Writer(s)	Jason Lutes
Artist(s)	Jason Lutes

Berlin is the title of a comic book series created by Jason Lutes and published by Drawn and Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines, it describes life in Berlin from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the Weimar Republic.

The first eight magazines were compiled into a book titled Berlin: City of Stones, published in 2000. It starts with Marthe Müller, an art student, arriving in Berlin. One story arc details the start of her life in Berlin, focusing on her relationship to journalist Kurt Severing. A second story line describes a working class family which breaks up due to differing political views, the mother eventually joining the communists with their daughters, while the father takes their son to the Nazis. The book ends on May 1, 1929, the International Workers Day. The next eight magazines will be compiled in Berlin book two: City of Smoke and will be released on August 19, 2008.