![]() Today, it seems there's no subject matter that doesn't suit the format. It's come forward in leaps and bounds in recent years, spurred on by the international success of titles such as Reinhard Kleist's graphic biography of Johnny Cash, "I See a Darkness," or Ulli Lust's memoir "Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens" ("Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life"). ![]() ![]() While so much of the German capital's creative reputation is hype, the local comic and graphic novel scene is genuinely exciting. I also recently found out that Berlin is home to Germany’s one and only comic book library, the Comicbibliothek Renate in Mitte. Sequential art is everywhere in this city, from comic strips luring you away from turgid headlines about the euro crisis and electricity tax hikes every time you open a newspaper, to bookstores' graphic novel sections, which seem to expand exponentially every time you turn your back. The term is controversial - to some it just means an expensive comic - but be that as it may, it's a genre that's left the bedside tables of teenage nerds, grown up and gone mainstream. How passé! These days, they're turning their talents to graphic novels. There was a time not so long ago when everyone in Berlin would tell you that they were writing a novel. ![]()
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