Steve Yeowell's cover to Crisis #48

The New Adventures of Hitler was a highly controversial comic book 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 Crisis in 1990. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a comic book writer and artist. ... Steve Yeowell is a British comicbook artist, well-known for his work on the long-running science fiction and fantasy weekly comic 2000AD. Having trained in 3D design (specialising in silversmithing and jewellery), Yeowell began drawing comics purely for pleasure, with no particular intention to become a professional artist. ... Crisis was a British comic published from 1988 to 1991 as an experiment by Fleetway Publications to see if intelligent, mature, politically and socially aware comics were saleable in the United Kingdom. ...

Publishing 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 upon the idea that Adolf Hitler had relatives in Liverpool and he actually spent time living with them when he was a young man. It first appeared in Cut, a Scottish arts and culture magazine and became instantly controversial as many interpreted Morrison to be a Nazi[1] due to his use of Hitler in what was essentially a humourous story. Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... A cow standing on a pole. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...

The resulting controversy saw Pat Kane, the lead singer of the band Hue and Cry, threaten to walk off the magazine (Kane was one of the magazines editors) 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. The New Adventures of Hitler completed its run in Cut but the controversy continued when the story was reprinted in Crisis in 1990. Pat Kane was Lord Rector of Glasgow University from 1990 to 1993. ... Greg Kane and Pat Kane of Hue & Cry (1994) Hue and Cry is a pop group formed in 1983 in Coatbridge, Scotland by brothers Pat Kane (vocals) and Greg Kane (keyboards). ... A public demonstration Freedom of speech is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies, where it is understood to outlaw censorship. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Crisis was a British comic published from 1988 to 1991 as an experiment by Fleetway Publications to see if intelligent, mature, politically and socially aware comics were saleable in the United Kingdom. ...

Crisis was a spin off from 2000 AD which printed more adult oriented work and The New Adventures of Hitler fitted in with the themes of the magazine. However the controversy which had surrounded the story in Cut continued with the strips reprinting in Crisis. Morrison and Crisis publishers IPC were criticised for using Hitler and were accused of being Nazis. The story ran from Crisis in issues 46-49 and a proposed collected edition by IPC never appeared. Morrison himself had planned to self-publish the story[2] but as of 2006 the strip remains unavailable in a collected edition. 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... IPC Media is a large British publishing company, mainly producing consumer magazines. ...

External links

• Grant Morrison homepage
• Introduction from Crisis