Jason Lutes
Berlin Book 1: City of Stones #1
Black Eye, 1996
I think a lot about being in the world and my own physical surroundings and how I’m a part of them and how they influence me. And cities specifically are fascinating because they are the result of collective effort and energy of humans coming together. But they grow organically even when you try to plan them ahead of time and have really careful overarching notions about how a city should operate, they’ll escape that and they’ll just kind of grow on their own. So I’m totally fascinated with cities as outgrowths of human community in all different aspects.
Jason Lutes, interviewed in The Comics Journal (2018)*
* Quote added after the original publication of this post.