As we learn in this interview, when Jason Lutes began drawing the Berlin series in the '90s, he had no idea his own country would be facing the threat of fascism, again, by the time he completed it.
Like many of the best comedies and tragedies, this Weimar-Era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair's breadth from the other.
Deliberate artificiality and horror based in human psychology make horror classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, first released in 1920, feel remarkably fresh today.
