DRAWN & QUARTERLY
BERLIN 22 #0
(W) Jason Lutes (A) Jason Lutes (CA) Jason Lutes
Berlin 22 is the final issue of Jason Lutes' Berlin-a sweeping masterpiece twenty years in the making. Where will Silvia go now that she's completely estranged from her family? Will David and his parents escape Berlin before the Nazis start rounding people up? Learn the fates of Marthe, Kurt, Anna, and the city itself, rapidly transforming around them.
FROM LONE MOUNTAIN GN
(W) John Porcellino (A) John Porcellino (CA) John Porcellino
John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams, and overgrown abandoned lots that surround every city. He studies the flora and fauna around us. He looks at the overlooked. Porcellino also digs deep into a quintessential American endeavour, the road trip. Uprooting his comfortable life several times in From Lone Mountain, John drives through the country weaving from small town to small town, experiencing America in slow motion, avoiding the sameness of airports and overwhelming hustle of major cities. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday.
VON SPATZ GN
(W) Anna Haifisch (A) Anna Haifisch (CA) Anna Haifisch
Walt Disney is exhausted both physically and mentally. After a breakdown where he trashes his office, his wife Lilian brings him to a retreat to recover - the Von Spatz Rehabilitation Center. With a campus that includes studio buildings, a gallery, an art supply store, a hot dog booth, and a penguin pool, the clinic is a paradise for artists in crisis. There Disney meets Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg, and together, they embark on a regimen of relaxation and art therapy. Haifisch looks at the fervent drive and crippling insecurities of the average artist and places those same issues on the shoulders of three celebrated 20th century artists. Part study of isolation, part tale of a begrudging camaraderie, daily life at the center mixes with reminiscences from the world outside.