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I Killed Adolf Hitler
What if we lived in a world where ‘murderer for hire’ was as legal and commonplace a profession as doctor or engineer?
What if a scientist hired one of these assassins for the most amazing hit of his career…to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before his evil rise to power?
And what if Hitler managed to survive that assassination attempt, steal the time machine, sneak back to the 21st century…leaving the would be killer stranded 70 years ago?
If you think you can guess the answers to any of these questions…you’re wrong. And you need to read this graphic novel, the amazing deadpan masterpiece from mighty Jason.
What if a scientist hired one of these assassins for the most amazing hit of his career…to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before his evil rise to power?
And what if Hitler managed to survive that assassination attempt, steal the time machine, sneak back to the 21st century…leaving the would be killer stranded 70 years ago?
If you think you can guess the answers to any of these questions…you’re wrong. And you need to read this graphic novel, the amazing deadpan masterpiece from mighty Jason.
48 pages, Paperback
First published November 3, 2006
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About the author
Jason
115 books707 followersJohn Arne Sæterøy, better known by the pen name Jason, is an internationally acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist. Jason's comics are known for their distinctive, stone-faced anthropomorphic characters as well as their pace reminiscent of classic films.
Jason was born in 1965 and debuted in the early 80's, when still a teenager, in the Norwegian comics magazine 'KonK'. His first graphic novel Pocket Full of Rain (1995) won the Sproing Award, one of the main national awards for cartoonist.
In 2001 Jason started a fruitful collaboration with the American publisher Fantagraphics, which helped him gain international notoriety. Besides Norway and the U.S., his comics have appeared in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil.
Jason's stories feature a peculiar mix of dry humour, surrealism and tropes from a variety of pulp genres, such as noir novels and monster movies. His most celebrated works include: Hey, Wait... (2001), a tale of childhood and trauma; You Can't Get There from Here (2004), a re-telling of the myth of Frankenstein; The Left Bank Gang (2007), featuring fictional versions of Hemingway and other writers living in Paris in the 1920s; I Killed Adolf Hitler (2008), a story that mixes romance and time travel; The Last Musketeer (2009), a love letter to old sci-fi imaginary featuring king's musketeer Athos; Low Moon (2010), one of his many collections of short stories; Werewolves of Montpellier (2010); Isle of 100,000 Graves (2011), a pirate story co-written with French cartoonist Fabien Vehlmann; Lost Cat (2013), a thriller with a surreal spin.
Jason won a Harvey Award for best new talent in 2002 and Eisner Awards in the category 'Best U.S. Edition of International Material' for three consecutive years (2007-2009).
He has lived in Denmark, Belgium, the U.S., eventually setting for Montpellier, France in 2007.
Jason was born in 1965 and debuted in the early 80's, when still a teenager, in the Norwegian comics magazine 'KonK'. His first graphic novel Pocket Full of Rain (1995) won the Sproing Award, one of the main national awards for cartoonist.
In 2001 Jason started a fruitful collaboration with the American publisher Fantagraphics, which helped him gain international notoriety. Besides Norway and the U.S., his comics have appeared in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil.
Jason's stories feature a peculiar mix of dry humour, surrealism and tropes from a variety of pulp genres, such as noir novels and monster movies. His most celebrated works include: Hey, Wait... (2001), a tale of childhood and trauma; You Can't Get There from Here (2004), a re-telling of the myth of Frankenstein; The Left Bank Gang (2007), featuring fictional versions of Hemingway and other writers living in Paris in the 1920s; I Killed Adolf Hitler (2008), a story that mixes romance and time travel; The Last Musketeer (2009), a love letter to old sci-fi imaginary featuring king's musketeer Athos; Low Moon (2010), one of his many collections of short stories; Werewolves of Montpellier (2010); Isle of 100,000 Graves (2011), a pirate story co-written with French cartoonist Fabien Vehlmann; Lost Cat (2013), a thriller with a surreal spin.
Jason won a Harvey Award for best new talent in 2002 and Eisner Awards in the category 'Best U.S. Edition of International Material' for three consecutive years (2007-2009).
He has lived in Denmark, Belgium, the U.S., eventually setting for Montpellier, France in 2007.
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May 4, 2018
Crisp dry humor.
With bone chilling coldness, minimalist graphics and dysfunctional families - the world has a darker side. Where assassination is as legit as driving. Where people hire killers to do the justice, or rather the justice they think should be delivered.
The coldness with which the "hits" are carried out are downright a blow to your guts. How a failed relationship tugs out to be fatal.
And of course the assassination of Adolf Hitler that has not gone as planned.
The protagonist may have been a merciless, without-blinking-an-eyelid executor who demands no more explanation than a paycheck. But his life comes a full circle with his girlfriend! An ending that fits the entwined plots with subplots. The story scruffs you by the neck and carries you to the ending - never thought a graphic novel could do that. Ever!
The protagonist might have been a remarkable button man, but it is Jason who delivers a perfect hit.
A literature savagery !
With bone chilling coldness, minimalist graphics and dysfunctional families - the world has a darker side. Where assassination is as legit as driving. Where people hire killers to do the justice, or rather the justice they think should be delivered.
The coldness with which the "hits" are carried out are downright a blow to your guts. How a failed relationship tugs out to be fatal.
And of course the assassination of Adolf Hitler that has not gone as planned.
The protagonist may have been a merciless, without-blinking-an-eyelid executor who demands no more explanation than a paycheck. But his life comes a full circle with his girlfriend! An ending that fits the entwined plots with subplots. The story scruffs you by the neck and carries you to the ending - never thought a graphic novel could do that. Ever!
The protagonist might have been a remarkable button man, but it is Jason who delivers a perfect hit.
A literature savagery !
November 30, 2023
Hitler 'time travel assassination' stories are nothing new...but Jason takes the concept and strips it down, leaving the reader with a new take to ponder. Jason always surprises me; I think I know where the story is going and then it does a 360 on me! Really like the way he takes the reader by the hand into a strange new place!
June 15, 2014
Only Norwegian artist Jason could tell a turbulent love story and somehow work in a plot to travel back in time and kill Hitler.
Set in a world where assassinations are a legit business, a hitman is given the biggest job of his career: kill Adolf Hitler! But the job goes wrong and Hitler makes it to the future, stranding the hitman in the past. What becomes of them both, and what of the love of his life that the hitman leaves in the future?
Like all of Jason’s books, I Killed Adolf Hitler is wonderful but, re-reading it years later, one detail stuck out to me that hadn’t before: why did the hitman travel to a time when Hitler was in power rather than his starving artist years when no-one knew who he was? Or even better, when he was a baby? Killing him then would be simple as there’d be no lackeys around to stop him completing the hit!
Other than that, it’s your usual Jason book which is to say, profound and moving but totally deadpan and funny. The real focus of the book is the relationship between the hitman and his girlfriend though, as he was stuck in the past and had to wait 50 years to pick up where they left off, he’s now old enough to be her grandfather. Jason explores their strangely altered relationship as realistically as the situation allows and the romance feels real and never melodramatic or underplayed.
There’s something very zen and pleasantly surreal about Jason’s comics. This book is laid out in 8-panel grids and tells its story in under 50 pages. The panels feature animal-headed characters eating lunch or taking a walk or just standing there, and the story never hurries along or takes longer than it does to tell a scene, but is never boring. The art is very crisp, clean, spare and, to me anyway, absolutely perfect, especially with Hubert’s lovely colours. There’s never too much in a panel or too little - it’s always measured just right. And I loved the time travel machine design which is basically a metal orb with a chair in it and a panel with a button - it felt very classic B-movie-ish in a good way and plays into Jason’s spare drawing style.
Jason’s comics are among the best the medium has to offer, all of which I highly recommend reading if you can find them - he really hasn’t made a bad comic yet. I Killed Adolf Hitler brilliantly subverts the time travel/Hitler question into a surprisingly moving romance and a delightful read.
Set in a world where assassinations are a legit business, a hitman is given the biggest job of his career: kill Adolf Hitler! But the job goes wrong and Hitler makes it to the future, stranding the hitman in the past. What becomes of them both, and what of the love of his life that the hitman leaves in the future?
Like all of Jason’s books, I Killed Adolf Hitler is wonderful but, re-reading it years later, one detail stuck out to me that hadn’t before: why did the hitman travel to a time when Hitler was in power rather than his starving artist years when no-one knew who he was? Or even better, when he was a baby? Killing him then would be simple as there’d be no lackeys around to stop him completing the hit!
Other than that, it’s your usual Jason book which is to say, profound and moving but totally deadpan and funny. The real focus of the book is the relationship between the hitman and his girlfriend though, as he was stuck in the past and had to wait 50 years to pick up where they left off, he’s now old enough to be her grandfather. Jason explores their strangely altered relationship as realistically as the situation allows and the romance feels real and never melodramatic or underplayed.
There’s something very zen and pleasantly surreal about Jason’s comics. This book is laid out in 8-panel grids and tells its story in under 50 pages. The panels feature animal-headed characters eating lunch or taking a walk or just standing there, and the story never hurries along or takes longer than it does to tell a scene, but is never boring. The art is very crisp, clean, spare and, to me anyway, absolutely perfect, especially with Hubert’s lovely colours. There’s never too much in a panel or too little - it’s always measured just right. And I loved the time travel machine design which is basically a metal orb with a chair in it and a panel with a button - it felt very classic B-movie-ish in a good way and plays into Jason’s spare drawing style.
Jason’s comics are among the best the medium has to offer, all of which I highly recommend reading if you can find them - he really hasn’t made a bad comic yet. I Killed Adolf Hitler brilliantly subverts the time travel/Hitler question into a surprisingly moving romance and a delightful read.
July 18, 2020
"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"
-Stephen Hawking(A Brief History of Time)
Two days ago our locality was declared a containment zone and out of murky depression I started reading graphic novels and my childhood attraction to colorful anthropomorphic characters led me to start this one, after I was recommended the first one of Jason, of course.
This one proved much, much better than the previous one, (Hey,Wait...) to me; and that's not just for sake of being one-off, as most of us as children cherished a desire to travel back in time to kill those contagious masked-monsters; but because it beautifully (and hilariously) blended in Hitler, with a dystopian society where being a mercenary is a legal profession, with a septuagenarian pedophilic morose hitman.
That coming from the back-cover, I guess I will upgrade the rating to 5 if I don't find a better work by Jason. It did serve the intended purpose.
"Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations."
Jasper Fforde,( First Among Sequels)
But, really, do you want to? Now?
-Stephen Hawking(A Brief History of Time)
Two days ago our locality was declared a containment zone and out of murky depression I started reading graphic novels and my childhood attraction to colorful anthropomorphic characters led me to start this one, after I was recommended the first one of Jason, of course.
This one proved much, much better than the previous one, (Hey,Wait...) to me; and that's not just for sake of being one-off, as most of us as children cherished a desire to travel back in time to kill those contagious masked-monsters; but because it beautifully (and hilariously) blended in Hitler, with a dystopian society where being a mercenary is a legal profession, with a septuagenarian pedophilic morose hitman.
That coming from the back-cover, I guess I will upgrade the rating to 5 if I don't find a better work by Jason. It did serve the intended purpose.
"Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations."
Jasper Fforde,( First Among Sequels)
But, really, do you want to? Now?
May 26, 2025
PT Outra grande história do Jason. Simples e eficaz.
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EN Another really cool story by Jason. Simple and efficient.
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EN Another really cool story by Jason. Simple and efficient.
February 11, 2017
In terms of storytelling, really impressive, technically. Great premise and resolution.
October 14, 2017
Of all the plots and conspiracies to kill Adolf Hitler, this is the best!
March 2, 2017
I was about to shelf it under comics but something felt out of place. It's as far fetched, as strange as other comics. Maybe because the though process is so neat, the subject matter is so novel. More than anything I suppose it is because of how the the characters are drawn and how their stories are written. And hence it is now shelved under Graphic novel because this sophisticated story needs a sophisticated category.
I loved how deadpan the story telling style is. We deal with the degenerating fabric of society but not a single time do I see any sentimental reflection on the author's part. It is all left to the reader to interpret the incidents whichever way and however much they want.
Thanks to Kavita Ramesh. Now that's an understatement. She seemed to just pull out a few names of her incredible list of books read and suggested me a few fantastic gems!
I loved how deadpan the story telling style is. We deal with the degenerating fabric of society but not a single time do I see any sentimental reflection on the author's part. It is all left to the reader to interpret the incidents whichever way and however much they want.
Thanks to Kavita Ramesh. Now that's an understatement. She seemed to just pull out a few names of her incredible list of books read and suggested me a few fantastic gems!
March 10, 2018
travel in time
I thought this cartoonist only writes dark books full of sorrow.
unlike my expectations, this one was full of humor!
but still dark
I thought this cartoonist only writes dark books full of sorrow.
unlike my expectations, this one was full of humor!
but still dark
June 15, 2018
Esta es la primera obra del autor que leí, y con la que caí rendida a sus pies. Recuerdo disfrutarla algo desconcertada, con esa sensación de no saber por dónde irán los tiros, terminarla, sorprenderme y maravillarme por cómo encaja todo, e inmediatamente volver a la primera página y releerla de nuevo, del tirón.
Maravilloso. Como siempre, geniales el dibujo y la historia, el escenario que plantea al principio, la poca expresividad de los personajes y lo muchísimo que transmiten, el humor, los mismos temas que plagan su obra, la soledad, la tristeza...
Maravilloso. Como siempre, geniales el dibujo y la historia, el escenario que plantea al principio, la poca expresividad de los personajes y lo muchísimo que transmiten, el humor, los mismos temas que plagan su obra, la soledad, la tristeza...
April 4, 2019
Βαθμολογία: 9/10
Τον Οκτώβριο του 2017 διάβασα το "Why Are You Doing This?", το οποίο με είχε πραγματικά ξετρελάνει με την ιδιόρρυθμη ιστορία του και το απλό αλλά ιδιαίτερο σχέδιό του. Ε, το ίδιο ακριβώς συνέβη και με το "I Killed Adolf Hitler", το οποίο με τη σειρά του μου άφησε τις καλύτερες εντυπώσεις. Τελικά το στιλ και το ύφος του Jason ταιριάζει αρκετά με τα γούστα μου, γι'αυτό και απολαμβάνω τόσο πολύ τις ιστορίες του, ενώ σε κάποιους άλλους ίσως να μην κάνει ούτε κρύο ούτε ζέστη. Κάτι στη λακωνικότητα που διακρίνει την πλοκή και τους διαλόγους -με το ψυχρό και μάλλον στεγνό χιούμορ- και κάτι στον μινιμαλισμό που διακρίνει το σχέδιο με τις απλές και καθαρές γραμμές, είναι αυτά που με έκαναν να απολαύσω το κόμικ του Jason. Και, φυσικά, ο χρωματισμός μου φάνηκε υπέροχος και απόλυτα ταιριαστός με το σχέδιο και το ύφος της ιστορίας. Σύντομα θα αγοράσω και άλλα κόμικ του συγγραφέα, αν και η τσέπη μου θα πονέσει ολίγον τι...
Τον Οκτώβριο του 2017 διάβασα το "Why Are You Doing This?", το οποίο με είχε πραγματικά ξετρελάνει με την ιδιόρρυθμη ιστορία του και το απλό αλλά ιδιαίτερο σχέδιό του. Ε, το ίδιο ακριβώς συνέβη και με το "I Killed Adolf Hitler", το οποίο με τη σειρά του μου άφησε τις καλύτερες εντυπώσεις. Τελικά το στιλ και το ύφος του Jason ταιριάζει αρκετά με τα γούστα μου, γι'αυτό και απολαμβάνω τόσο πολύ τις ιστορίες του, ενώ σε κάποιους άλλους ίσως να μην κάνει ούτε κρύο ούτε ζέστη. Κάτι στη λακωνικότητα που διακρίνει την πλοκή και τους διαλόγους -με το ψυχρό και μάλλον στεγνό χιούμορ- και κάτι στον μινιμαλισμό που διακρίνει το σχέδιο με τις απλές και καθαρές γραμμές, είναι αυτά που με έκαναν να απολαύσω το κόμικ του Jason. Και, φυσικά, ο χρωματισμός μου φάνηκε υπέροχος και απόλυτα ταιριαστός με το σχέδιο και το ύφος της ιστορίας. Σύντομα θα αγοράσω και άλλα κόμικ του συγγραφέα, αν και η τσέπη μου θα πονέσει ολίγον τι...
May 22, 2025
একজন ভাড়াটে খুনিকে দায়িত্ব দেওয়া টাইম ট্রাভেল করে অতীতে গিয়ে অ্যাডলফ হিটলারকে খুন করে আসার জন্য। কিন্তু গোলমাল হয়ে যায়, হিটলার টাইম ট্রাভেল করে ফিরে আসে বর্তমানে।কি হবে হিটলারের উপস্থিতিতে বর্তমানের ?
এখানে ভাড়াটে খুনির ব্যক্তিগত দুঃখকষ্ট ও একাকীত্ব গল্পের সমান্তরালে চলতে থাকে। সব চরিত্র যেহেতু বিড়াল,তাই একটু ভিন্ন ধরনেরই লেগেছে।
এখানে ভাড়াটে খুনির ব্যক্তিগত দুঃখকষ্ট ও একাকীত্ব গল্পের সমান্তরালে চলতে থাকে। সব চরিত্র যেহেতু বিড়াল,তাই একটু ভিন্ন ধরনেরই লেগেছে।
January 24, 2014
This is one of Jason't most thoughtful stories...despite the adventure, it's loaded with bitter irony. Not quite 'Back to the Future' fun.
June 10, 2009
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 (and often it's in the dialogue that we find the subtlety). He explores themes of love and life and second chances (not disimilarly to how Jonathan Blow would later meditate on similar themes through his popular videogame Braid. And even more, perhaps, I Killed Adolph Hitler concerns the nature of man.
The protagonist is a hitman who will kill anyone without compunction and without anymore reason than a paycheck. He exists in a world in which such things are commonplace and there are no legal ramifications to his job. Jason, by posing an assassin as hero sheds a different kind of light on Hitler, his next target—and in so doing asks interesting questions about human nature.
While not the most towering literary achievement I've ever encountered, I Killed Adolph Hitler was certainly worth my time (it only took a half hour to read) and Jason presents a terse, well-told and well-managed story that is equal parts humourous, morbid, thoughtful, and touching. I look forward to exploring the rest of his body of work (having only read Why Are You Doing This?).
The mononymous author, Jason, crafts instead a work with both subtlety and dialogue (and often it's in the dialogue that we find the subtlety). He explores themes of love and life and second chances (not disimilarly to how Jonathan Blow would later meditate on similar themes through his popular videogame Braid. And even more, perhaps, I Killed Adolph Hitler concerns the nature of man.
The protagonist is a hitman who will kill anyone without compunction and without anymore reason than a paycheck. He exists in a world in which such things are commonplace and there are no legal ramifications to his job. Jason, by posing an assassin as hero sheds a different kind of light on Hitler, his next target—and in so doing asks interesting questions about human nature.
While not the most towering literary achievement I've ever encountered, I Killed Adolph Hitler was certainly worth my time (it only took a half hour to read) and Jason presents a terse, well-told and well-managed story that is equal parts humourous, morbid, thoughtful, and touching. I look forward to exploring the rest of his body of work (having only read Why Are You Doing This?).
August 7, 2016
This was good...I think? good idea, so funny,i enjoyed the story, but it was short i expected more.
December 6, 2019
Jason's unique sense of humor is growing into me with every book that I discover.
July 14, 2019
What a weird wild ride this was.
I wondered why everyone was so blasé about this guy killing people in plain view, then I got to the end and in the back it said that assassinations are legal now... and then I wondered, why are they legal? What kind of an impact would it have on the society? Not a whole lot, as it turns out.
I wondered why everyone was so blasé about this guy killing people in plain view, then I got to the end and in the back it said that assassinations are legal now... and then I wondered, why are they legal? What kind of an impact would it have on the society? Not a whole lot, as it turns out.
June 30, 2014
Funny, sad, and not so much about a time traveling Hitler on the run from a hit man as one might expect.
March 27, 2012
when i finish a book this good, and notice that it was published 5 YEARS ago, all i can think of is how i could've been feeling this happy a long time ago. you can stop the clocks, this is going to easily be the coolest book i read in 2012. thanks for playing
October 30, 2016
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 we know, Hitler's alive and well and in the modern age. What can our hero do? That would be telling.
This may be the best story I've read from Jason so far. The two main characters are very well developed with only the slightest bit of dialog and scene-setting, the little jokes are both macabre and fun (the hitman has an office with a waiting line, ala a doctor's office), and the story actually has a touching, if tragic ending.
It's also notable that this is one of the few times I've not gone "oh hell" and thrown up my hands at a time travel story. Jason sets up a few rules and leaves it at that--and that works well for me. It serves to move the story forward, not to make it more complicated. Well done!
If you liked his other work, this one will be right up your alley. I'm even tempted to say that this would be a good starting point for those who haven't read anything by him yet. An early favorite for the years's best list (if I ever get one together). (Library, 02/08)
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 we know, Hitler's alive and well and in the modern age. What can our hero do? That would be telling.
This may be the best story I've read from Jason so far. The two main characters are very well developed with only the slightest bit of dialog and scene-setting, the little jokes are both macabre and fun (the hitman has an office with a waiting line, ala a doctor's office), and the story actually has a touching, if tragic ending.
It's also notable that this is one of the few times I've not gone "oh hell" and thrown up my hands at a time travel story. Jason sets up a few rules and leaves it at that--and that works well for me. It serves to move the story forward, not to make it more complicated. Well done!
If you liked his other work, this one will be right up your alley. I'm even tempted to say that this would be a good starting point for those who haven't read anything by him yet. An early favorite for the years's best list (if I ever get one together). (Library, 02/08)
February 4, 2023
Simplistic to the point where one wonders if you found this story unpublished on the ground would you really find much value in it? Often most praise comes from the already existing popularity surrounding a book, rather than its actual ingenuity.
November 2, 2019
Un asesino a sueldo viaja en el tiempo, en una máquina construida por un científico loco, para matar a Hitler. Podría parecer una historia de ciencia ficción bastante trillada y convencional, pero no, esta es una obra de Jason. Está el intento de matar a Hitler, o más bien los intentos, están los enredos temporales y los desfases y las capas que se van superponiendo, pero este cómic toma todos esos motivos y los ensambla, según el estilo de Jason, en su propio mundo de animales antropomórficos y melancólicos. El resultado de la combinación, como siempre, es algo sorprendente. Una historia sobre el amor, y cómo a veces se hace necesario esperar, y cómo algunas relaciones florecen, a veces tardíamente, cuando cada uno se encuentra en la misma página. O en la misma línea temporal.
February 13, 2024
I Killed Adolf Hitler is a very short graphic novel. On only 48 pages, the author presents the story of an assassin who accepts a job to kill Adolf Hitler. Hitler came to power decades ago, so the assassin must use a time machine.
A very good crime graphic novel. Another artwork from the Norwegian illustrator Jason.
A very good crime graphic novel. Another artwork from the Norwegian illustrator Jason.
May 23, 2016
Oh man, am I ever on board with this. Super wonderful minimalism, time travel, some sort of weird world with hired killers killing people constantly, and killing hitler. Well I'm not on board with that concept in real life, but in this context is so strange I can't help it! The dialog was really perfect and the overall story arc was so satisfying. I definitely recommend this if you like things weird and dark.
April 11, 2018
Today I've got no classes to take at the varsity. Students abandoned the classes to express their solidarity with Reform Quota movement. So, I just flipped through this comic. It was pretty quick, took me only half an hour.
The twists are hilarious. However, as it appeared - the world would not have turned out any better without Hitler and it still isn't with him!
The twists are hilarious. However, as it appeared - the world would not have turned out any better without Hitler and it still isn't with him!
May 29, 2024
Read 05/29/2023
Omg I LOVED this. This was so much better than I was expecting!!
There are a few automatic buys for me when it comes to graphic novels, one of them being anything with animal MC’s, I love anthropomorphic storylines with our furry friends at the head. And this was not your normal anthropomorphic tale, they were especially humanized, like they walked upright, wore clothes, lived in houses, etc. But I loved every minute of this!!!!
Another automatic buy for me is anything to do with Hitler. Retellings, reimaginings, etc, I see Hitler, I grab it. (Which sounds sorta weird so let me also say I also do the same with Jesus 😂) They’re just such larger-than-life, ENORMOUSLY significant historical figures, I am fascinated by anything that uses them as characters, whether it be in a comical way, or suggestive, or totally serious. So naturally I knew I had to read this. It was much shorter than I expected too, but I loved it immediately. The dry, understated artwork was just absolutely perfect for this, I LOL’d a bunch of times which truly is not common for me when it comes to books or graphic novels. There was also a very cute love story that wound up quietly taking center stage in a time traveling story about killing Hitler. I just ate this up.
**Immediately adding every other graphic novel by Jason**
Omg I LOVED this. This was so much better than I was expecting!!
There are a few automatic buys for me when it comes to graphic novels, one of them being anything with animal MC’s, I love anthropomorphic storylines with our furry friends at the head. And this was not your normal anthropomorphic tale, they were especially humanized, like they walked upright, wore clothes, lived in houses, etc. But I loved every minute of this!!!!
Another automatic buy for me is anything to do with Hitler. Retellings, reimaginings, etc, I see Hitler, I grab it. (Which sounds sorta weird so let me also say I also do the same with Jesus 😂) They’re just such larger-than-life, ENORMOUSLY significant historical figures, I am fascinated by anything that uses them as characters, whether it be in a comical way, or suggestive, or totally serious. So naturally I knew I had to read this. It was much shorter than I expected too, but I loved it immediately. The dry, understated artwork was just absolutely perfect for this, I LOL’d a bunch of times which truly is not common for me when it comes to books or graphic novels. There was also a very cute love story that wound up quietly taking center stage in a time traveling story about killing Hitler. I just ate this up.
**Immediately adding every other graphic novel by Jason**
December 28, 2017
A fun little dark romance on a time traveling hitman and killing Adolph Hitler -- what more can you ask for?
November 7, 2022
5/5
Me ha encantado. Se lee en un pispás. Llevaba mucho tiempo queriendo leer la obra de este noruego afincado en Francia. Me llamó mucho la atención su dibujo minimalista e inexpresivo, así como el toque poético que se podía extraer de sus obras con tan solo un vistazo a la sinopsis y portadas. Y ha cumplido, al menos esta pequeña historia, por completo con las expectativas.
No es un cómic, evidentemente, sobre Hitler, apenas aparece en unas pocas viñetas; es tan solo una excusa para una bonita historia de amor y para reflexionar sobre la naturaleza del mal. Pese a la inexpresividad imperante en los dibujos, el desarrollo tiene muchísimo dinamismo. El color, aunque no es suyo, sino del desaparecido Hubert, es perfecto. Un gran descubrimiento que me anima a querer leer toda su obra.
Me ha encantado. Se lee en un pispás. Llevaba mucho tiempo queriendo leer la obra de este noruego afincado en Francia. Me llamó mucho la atención su dibujo minimalista e inexpresivo, así como el toque poético que se podía extraer de sus obras con tan solo un vistazo a la sinopsis y portadas. Y ha cumplido, al menos esta pequeña historia, por completo con las expectativas.
No es un cómic, evidentemente, sobre Hitler, apenas aparece en unas pocas viñetas; es tan solo una excusa para una bonita historia de amor y para reflexionar sobre la naturaleza del mal. Pese a la inexpresividad imperante en los dibujos, el desarrollo tiene muchísimo dinamismo. El color, aunque no es suyo, sino del desaparecido Hubert, es perfecto. Un gran descubrimiento que me anima a querer leer toda su obra.
April 12, 2017
A dark, dry, elegantly plotted and curiously moving entry in the go-back-in-time-and-kill-Hitler short story genre. Jason paces it beautifully, his many wordless panels creating a kind of flat-affect minimalism while you're reading it, but ensuring individual moments stick with you and go off like fireworks in your head hours later, whether because they're poignant or just very good jokes. The time travel plot is both central to the story and an emotional MacGuffin: at its heart this is an odd, stylised and very dysfunctional romance tale. To say which Steven Moffatt Doctor Who episode this reminded me of would reveal too many spoilers - it's not the obvious one - but I do wonder if he's read it.
October 1, 2014
Jason creates inscrutable comics. There's a quiet emptiness to his all but expressionless animal-headed people that's hard to describe, but impossible to get enough of. In this book, a hired killer is contracted to travel to the past and kill Adolf Hitler. Naturally, things don't go that smoothly. Jason is Norwegian, so perhaps that explains the cold, empty stillness that pervades his work. Or not. In any case, if you're unfamiliar with his books, this is an excellent one to start with.
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