![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a rare adaptation that, rather than simply transcribing the source material, transcends it. The Austrian comic artist and illustrator Ulli Lust has been a member of the Berliner alternative art scene since the late 1990s, and nowadays ranks as one of its leading representatives. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive. 1 September 1967, Austria) 'Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life', 2009. Lust’s loose, deceptively simple art, tinted in washes of faded color, creates a mood of deepening claustrophobia as the complicit Karnau and the innocent Helga descend toward the same fate. Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. The narrative switches between two small cogs in the relentless machinery of the Reich: Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer who progresses from arranging the speakers at Nazi rallies to conducting bizarre aural experiments on concentration camp prisoners, and Helga, the eldest daughter of Joseph Goebbels, who, along with her siblings, is destined to be murdered by her parents in Hitler’s bunker. She is more than up to the task, transmuting the material with visual imagination and insight. ![]() Following her award-winning graphic novel memoir Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life, Lust adapts The Karnau Tapes, Beyer’s dense, dark novel set during the collapse of the Third Reich. ![]()
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