 After two years of research, in 1996 Lutes embarked on the ambitious comic book series "Berlin", an ongoing 22-chapter story set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic.When "Berlin"'s original publisher Black Eye Productions closed in 1998, Drawn & Quarterly took over the series.Lutes subsequently moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in October 2002; this move forms the subject of his autobiographical "Rules to Live By," collected in "AutobioGraphix" by Dark Horse Comics.