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This is one of the most famous stories of the Cold War. Five young men with pistols against twenty thousand heavily armed soldiers of the East German People's Police who managed to sneak into a free West Berlin. The story of the Machin brothers and their family was told by the writer Jan Novak in his novel So Far So Good, which reads like an intense, frantic western and won the Magnesia Litera award for best book of the year. The script was created by artist Jaromir 99, who created a dramatic and visually strong comic book in a special noir style.

About the authors

Jaromir 99 (born in 1963) Full name Jaromir Švejdik, lives half in the world of comics, half in the world of music. He is known as a member of the bands Priessnitz and Umakart, as well as the artist of the trilogy Alois Nebel (2003). He was also the screenwriter and artist of its successful film version (2011), which won the European Film Academy Award for Best Animated Film. He received the Muriel Award for his comic book The Bomber (2007). For the British publishing house Selfmade hero he created a comic version of Kafka's The Castle (2013, nominated for the Eisner Award). He collaborated with Jan Novák on the comic book Zatopek (published by Paseka Argo, 2016). He lives in Prague.

Jan Novák (born 1953) Leading Czech writer, translator and documentary filmmaker. In 1969, he emigrated with his parents via Austria to the United States, lived in Chicago, and is now back home in the Czech Republic. His novel So Far So Good (2004, published by Paseka Argo, 2011), the comic version of which you are holding in your hands, won the Magnesia Litera award for best book of 2005. He has also published a biography of Milos Forman, What Do I Know There (2013), and a conversation with John Bock, Life Beyond Categories (2015), both from Argo and Paseka. His first comic book, shortly titled Zatopek (2016), was translated into five languages.