The New Adventures of Hitler

The New Adventures of Hitler

Steve Yeowell's cover to Crisis #48
First appearance Crisis #46 (1990)
Created by Grant Morrison
Steve Yeowell
Publication information
Publisher Fleetway
Schedule Weekly
Title(s) Crisis #46-49
Formats Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Crisis.
Genre
Publication date June – July 1990
Number of issues 4
Main character(s) Adolf Hitler
Creative team
Writer(s) Grant Morrison
Artist(s) Steve Yeowell
Creator(s) Grant Morrison
Steve Yeowell

The New Adventures of Hitler was a highly controversial comic series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell which first appeared in Cut, a Scottish arts magazine in 1989 before being reprinted in the anthology Crisis in 1990.

Publication history

The New Adventures of Hitler was a satirical and surreal (one scene has Hitler opening a cupboard to find Morrissey singing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now") strip based on the claims of Hitler's sister-in-law Bridget Dowling that Hitler had lived with her, her husband Alois Hitler, Jr., and her son William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913. It first appeared in Cut, a Scottish arts and culture magazine and became instantly controversial, and some accused Morrison of being a Nazi[1] due to his use of Hitler in what was essentially a humorous story.

The resulting controversy saw Pat Kane, the lead singer of the band Hue and Cry as well as one of the magazine's editors, threaten to walk off the magazine and indulge in a public war of words with Morrison over his intentions with the strip. The debate widened to cover freedom of speech issues and became a nationwide news story when the tabloid newspaper The Sun got hold of the story. Cut folded before the whole strip was published, but the controversy continued when The New Adventures of Hitler was printed in its entirety in Crisis in 1990.

Crisis was a spin-off from 2000 AD which printed more adult-oriented work and The New Adventures of Hitler fit in with the themes of the magazine. However the controversy which had surrounded the story in Cut continued with the strip's reprinting in Crisis. The story ran from Crisis in issues 46-49 and a proposed collected edition by IPC never appeared. Morrison himself had planned to set up his own imprint to self-publish some of his work, including The New Adventures of Hitler, but nothing came of the idea. [2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Barbelith Interviews: An Interview with Grant Morrison". Barbelith.com. 2002-09-02. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
  2. ↑ "PopImage". PopImage. Retrieved 2010-10-07.

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