Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler

Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler, originally titled Gekiga Hitler (劇画ヒットラー, Gekiga Hittorā), is a manga by Shigeru Mizuki about the life of Adolf Hitler. In 1971 it began serialization in Weekly Manga Sunday. In November 2015, it was published in English by Drawn & Quarterly,[1] translated by Zack Davisson.[2]

Davin Arul of The Star, a Malaysian publication, stated that it uses Mizuki's "trademark style of putting almost sketchily-drawn cartoon characters in realistic, highly-detailed settings".[1] Arul wrote that the Holocaust in this graphic novel is "used as a bookend and does not figure too much in between – possibly because Mizuki did not want the magnitude of it to eclipse the rest of his story."[1]

The book has a two-page list of dramatis personae at the front of the book and a footnote index in the back that has fifteen pages.[1]

Reception

Publishers Weekly described it as a "fresh take". It was ranked as a "Publishers Weekly Pick", and the work stated that it is "a candidate for the year’s best graphic novel."[3]

Davin Arul wrote that a reader gets accustomed to the cartoonish art style despite it being initially "really jarring".[1] Arul stated that the work is highly complex due to the amount of detail and that can "lose the reader".[1]

See also

References
  1. Arul, Davin (2016-03-22). "Review: Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler". The Star. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  2. "Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler". Drawn and Quarterly. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  3. "Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler". Publishers Weekly. 2015-11-09. Retrieved 2020-03-19.


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