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I Killed Adolf Hitler
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Jason
In this full-color graphic novel, Jason posits a strange, violent worldin which contract killers can be hired to rub out pests, be theydysfunctional relatives, abusive co-workers, loud neighbors, or justannoyances in general and as you might imagine, their services are inheavy demand. One such killer is given the unique job of traveling backin time to kill Adolf Hitler in ...more
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
October 22nd 2007
by Fantagraphics Books
(first published 2006)
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Those of you who follow along at home with me will know Jason's style by now--simplistic panels with minimal (or no) words, telling an achingly depressing story along the way.
This one's no different--our protagonist is a killer for hire who has a girlfriend with a kink for guns. He goes about his life as normal when gets a rather unusual request--get in a time machine and kill Adolf Hitler.
Simple, easy, no?
No.
Things start to go wrong, and the next thing w...more
This one's no different--our protagonist is a killer for hire who has a girlfriend with a kink for guns. He goes about his life as normal when gets a rather unusual request--get in a time machine and kill Adolf Hitler.
Simple, easy, no?
No.
Things start to go wrong, and the next thing w...more
Forget Tarantino’s irreverent Inglorious Basterds or even Singer’s more sobering Valkyrie. The notion of taking out the notorious Nazi leader has never been more bizarre than in Jason’s I Killed Adolf Hitler. Straight from the outset, we know this is a parallel universe far, far from ours -- what with its horny neighbor girl, our hit-man protagonist, and not to mention the anthropomorphic characters who distantly resemble the cats, mice, and pigs from Art Speigelman’s Maus. (Although I don’t thi...more
I wasn't quite sure what to expect with I Killed Adolph Hitler. The single preview page I saw was the one in which our hero enters and emerges from the time machine. It is silent and so I presumed that the book itself might be one of those silent comics. Additionally, the preview blurb on the book's back cover evoked the image of an adventurous thrill ride. Thankfully, both presumptions were mistaken.
The mononymous author, Jason, crafts instead a work with both subtlety and dialogue...more
The mononymous author, Jason, crafts instead a work with both subtlety and dialogue...more
I'd give this another star, maybe, but the artwork was really frustrating. It was simplistic, which is fine, and would have been effective if he'd made the male characters easier to tell apart. I had to keep flipping back to earlier pages to see which character was wearing a tie, or a jacket over his blue shirt, etc. However, I enjoyed the story, and it was certainly worth the 45 minutes it took to read it.
I Killed Adolf Hitler continues the string of deadpan comics that have become Jason's signature, all rendered in his simple, but quite beautiful, pen-and-ink style. As with other recent Jason titles from Fantagraphics, this one is in color, and the addition of color does not seem frivolous - it does add a fuller dimension to these austere panels.[return][return]The plot of I Killed Adolf Hitler is entirely too original and convoluted to be paraphrased here; suffice to say that Jason is up to h...more
Liked it. Not much more to it than the dead-pan "ha" it exhumes. like the notions of time travel and the final resolution coming for this failing relationship as they age 50 years and wind up in the same spot as when they were young. Also, the casual caustic violence done by assassins is a weird macabre that is catching. Good bathroom read. Read it in five minutes at a coffeeshop. Also, like the drawing, the stick figures are cute. I like that the image of Hitler can be peddled ...more
Having created one of the most lauded graphic novels (I still haven't read it, but it is called "Hey, Wait..."), I saw a couple pieces by Jason at the library and snagged them. This is a surprisingly beautiful love story that concisely portrays the way we go about senselessly operating in our daily lives (in this case, as a hitman) without recognizing the beautiful, simple things and loved ones that really end up sustaining us. Hard to explain on so many levels and strange as it is, ...more
I heard of this a while ago when I saw its attention grabbing title as "Best US Edition of International Material" on a list of last years Eisner Award winners. A couple days ago I saw it in the library and read in 10-20 minutes.
Truly, one of the strangest books I have read in a while.
It is a chronicle of a man (or anthropomorphic bear-thingy) that lives in a version of the present day where assassins are as common as doctors or lawyers. He is sent back into the past . . ....more
Truly, one of the strangest books I have read in a while.
It is a chronicle of a man (or anthropomorphic bear-thingy) that lives in a version of the present day where assassins are as common as doctors or lawyers. He is sent back into the past . . ....more
Another wee gem from Jason here. I didn't find this one as funny as The Last Musketeer, but the wry style still works for me.
The basic plot here is that a Berlin hitman is hired to go back in time and kill Hitler, using a time machine that can be used twice and then needs 50 years to recharge its batteries; things don't go quite to plan, and Adolph runs away into the future in his time machine, leaving the hitman with no choice but to wait out the decades before he can take another sho...more
The basic plot here is that a Berlin hitman is hired to go back in time and kill Hitler, using a time machine that can be used twice and then needs 50 years to recharge its batteries; things don't go quite to plan, and Adolph runs away into the future in his time machine, leaving the hitman with no choice but to wait out the decades before he can take another sho...more
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Un comic de una melancolía conmovedora y con un manejo impresionante (y, a la vez, sutil) de los recursos del medio. Aunque el título podría llevarnos a pensar que la muerte de Hitler es el tema principal del libro, en buena medida, es sólo un pretexto para llevarnos de paseo por las relaciones de pareja, a la par de una reflexión social sobre el asesinato (cuando es apropiado, cuando se justicia, a quien se le autoriza) y el inevitable, pero no necesariamente fatídico, paso del tiempo... todo e...more
This book came highly recommended to me, so I was pleased when I saw it sitting on the shelf at the library for me to read. I think my expectations hurt my overall enjoyment of this book, because there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, but I was expecting to be knocked on my ass and that didn't happen.
The story is a neat take on time paradoxes wrapped around an interesting relationship between an assassin and his long time lover. Yeah. That sounds a lot more exciting than this bo...more
The story is a neat take on time paradoxes wrapped around an interesting relationship between an assassin and his long time lover. Yeah. That sounds a lot more exciting than this bo...more
Concise, poignant and detached. The author pulls off a fictional revenge story without all the emotion or drama that usually follows such a notorious individual. It isn't even a great "what if" story that tells of a better world because of an assassinated Hitler. In fact, Hitler is a minor character and a sub-theme of the book while the over-arching one is on the hitman and his lover.
I found it clever and only would have enjoyed it more if I had read it immediately after...more
I found it clever and only would have enjoyed it more if I had read it immediately after...more
I picked this book up randomly while browsing at the library. The title was intriguing, but I really didn't know what to expect.
Imagine a world where it's perfectly legal to hire a hitman and it's actually quite common place for people to get gunned down in the street for petty reasons. Add a time machine that takes 50 years to charge and you have the basic setting for I Killed Adolf Hitler. This short graphic novel is an interesting read, but definitely not mainstream.
Imagine a world where it's perfectly legal to hire a hitman and it's actually quite common place for people to get gunned down in the street for petty reasons. Add a time machine that takes 50 years to charge and you have the basic setting for I Killed Adolf Hitler. This short graphic novel is an interesting read, but definitely not mainstream.
Quirkier than the graphic novels I usually read, but was enjoyable. Interesting art style (I do love me some anthropomorphic animals) and a neat premise. I wish there had been a bit more to the story though - more about time traveling paradoxes, more about how the world turned out differently after Hitler's 'disappearance.' But overall, a fun (and very quick) read.
The only reason I don't love Jason more is that he writes too many books. He is otherwise awesome, and belongs up there with Beto Hernandez as top class storytellers-in-pictures.
That said-- this is a pretty amazing book. Matter of factly brutal in its unexplained conceit that killers for hire are a matter of course, and its obviously creaky plot machinery of a time machine that works once every fifty years, this isn't all that interested in Hitler but instead is a semi-sweet ruminati...more
That said-- this is a pretty amazing book. Matter of factly brutal in its unexplained conceit that killers for hire are a matter of course, and its obviously creaky plot machinery of a time machine that works once every fifty years, this isn't all that interested in Hitler but instead is a semi-sweet ruminati...more
Everything about this book is crisp and well-polished. It doesn't hold your hand through its premise but doesn't shove your face in it either. Rather, the setting presents itself naturally. Jason does a good job of tying a relatively simple storyline around this setting and the color looks phenomenal.
This is a short-ish graphic novel about a paid assassin, and his most recent contract: to go back in time and kill Hitler. The plot is good enough on its own -- lots of twists and turns. But the real reason I enjoyed this book was the characterization.
In back-stories and quick cuts, we see the assassin interview with prospective clients; argue with his current girlfriend; muse about the futility of his job. The depth is developed primarily through the art work, which is even more ...more
In back-stories and quick cuts, we see the assassin interview with prospective clients; argue with his current girlfriend; muse about the futility of his job. The depth is developed primarily through the art work, which is even more ...more
I could see giving this one five stars, but in the end I felt that was unfair to the other three I read, as this is a step up, but not a huge one. Anyway, the story doesn't go at all where you think it'll go, despite the huge giveaway (or is it?) in the title. It's much more about relationships and attachment to people, the things we will (often big) and will not (often little) do for them. Hitler is an afterthought, a Macguffin, so just because you've read Stephen Fry's Making History (and I'm ...more
Sweet little story by one of my new favorite authors. Something about animals is disarming that when they turn out to be troubled complex characters it hits you twice as hard. Great stuff. Also, Hitler makes a cameo. Bonus.
The first I've read by Jason. Soon to be the first of many. Loved it. The premise. The illustration. The humour. The only reason it's not getting five stars is a logic problem that niggles me
There's something about Jason's inking that sort of haunts me, in particular here. Kind of a slight work, although he puts a characteristically melancholy spin on the whole time travel bit.
As it often goes with Jason, it's the sweetly quiet, human moments that stand out against all the time-travelling and the ridiculously high body count.
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In a reality where hitmen can be hired as easily as one would hire a detective or request meat from a butcher, the main character is hired by a scientist to travel back in time and kill Hitler. The catch: the time machine can only make one journey into the past every 50 years, so the hitman has only one chance to get it right.
The main plot entwines with the sub-plot until you're not sure which is more important; time travel interferes with the awkwardness of putting to rest a former...more
The main plot entwines with the sub-plot until you're not sure which is more important; time travel interferes with the awkwardness of putting to rest a former...more
What a sweet little quick to read graphic novel. Hits the emotional chords and it's always nice to see Hitler get assassinated. Comedy.
An assassin gets hired to travel back in time and kill Hitler before he can commit his atrocities; hilarity ensues. A love story.
This one is much better than The Living and the Dead. It's less about Hitler and more about how we change with long periods of aging and love and assassination as a day-job. I may have liked this one more than The Left Bank Gang (I'm a sucker for time travel).
A bizarre story about a hitman going back in the to kill Hitler, this one introduced me to Jason and got me hooked.
Jason is the Kafka of Graphic Novels. The stories are fantastic literature and the drawings are beyond perfect.
Another gem from Jason. It's amazing how he can go from absurdity to heartbreak on the turn of a page.
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