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]