After the Nazis conquered Crete, another Mediterranean island, in May of 1941 when I was eight-and-a-half years old, there was great anxiety and expectation among Cypriots that the Nazis would try to capture Cyprus next. Now and then German or Italian war planes would fly over Cyprus and bomb the British bases on the island. There were also smaller numbers of Armenians, Maronites, Phoenicians and British.Īfter World War II started when I was seven years old, thousands of Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks joined the British military. Two ethnic groups, Greeks and, in lesser numbers, Turks lived in the same cities, towns and some villages, while in other villages only Greeks or Turks lived. At that time there were about 350,000 people on this Mediterranean island. On January 27, 1945, when Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Concentration Camp was liberated in Germany I was a 12-year-old son of Turkish parents living on Cyprus, which was then a British colony. As always, I Killed Adolf Hitler is rendered in Jason's crisp deadpan neo-clear-line style, once again augmented by lovely, understated coloring.An Unnamed Childhood Feeling About the Nazis and finally, when the reader isn't paying attention, he brings it together with a shocking, perfectly logical and yet completely unexpected climax which also solves a mystery from the very beginning of the book the reader had forgotten about.

at which point the book veers further into Jason territory, as the cartoonist's minimalist, wickedly dry sense of humor slows down the story to a crawl: for long patches absolutely nothing happens, but nobody can make nothing happening as riotously entertaining as Jason does. The killer eventually finds his way back to the present by simply waiting the decades out as he ages, and teams up with his now much-younger girlfriend to track down the missing fascist dictator. Hitler overpowers the would-be assassin and sends himself to the present, leaving the killer stranded in the past. One such killer is given the unique job of traveling back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939. In this full-color graphic novel, Jason posits a strange, violent world in which contract killers can be hired to rub out pests, be they dysfunctional relatives, abusive co-workers, loud neighbors, or just annoyances in general - and as you might imagine, their services are in heavy demand. Hitler overpowers the would-be assassin and sends himself to the present, leaving the killer stranded.

I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason