Called "one of the best cartoonists working today" by Metroactive's Richard von Busack, comic book artist Jason Lutes has taken the genre in totally new directions with his massive trilogy, Berlin, a historical novel in pictures whose first installment weighed in at 200 pages. Reviewers seldom use the word epic when critiquing comics series or graphic novels, but that is exactly the response Lutes's tale of Berlin from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s has elicited, as well as winning numerous awards and award nominations from the comic book industry. Lutes has also published Jar of Fools, the story of an unemployed magician and his mentor. Blending spare black and white line drawings, reminiscent of the work of Belgian artist Herge, with realistic and detail-filled text, Lutes has created graphic novels which have "the density of the best novels," according to Andrew D. Arnold in Time.com...