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9781936239429 English 1936239426 Cartoon strip satirists Carr and Kumar metamorphose last century's most hated figure with the contemporary twit known as 'the Hipster'. The notorious strip reveals how today's subculture personalities fetishise the authentic to create a new variety of conformism. For the first time, the infamous strip appears here in print. Using a combination of puns, parody, dark humour and visual gags the exploits of the Third Reich and the activities of the everyday Hipster are lampooned in a knowing fashion., In a competition of the most hated memes of modern times, "Hipster" has now caught up with "Hitler." Artists James Carr and Archana Kumar thought, why not combine the two? After all, Hitler was indeed a hipster of his time, a failed artist in Vienna scrounging up extra dollars or kroner painting quick architecture scenes for the tourists. In their heavily trafficked website, "hipsterhitler.com," these comic artists posit a new sort of history in which Hitler, wears Silverlake-trendy glasses, thrift store sweaters, and outspoken T-shirts, and the reader begins to quickly understand the history of Hitler in a new and strangely engaging way. The Feral House book of Hipster Hitler includes a few dozen pages of comics heretofore unseen online.
9781936239429 English 1936239426 Cartoon strip satirists Carr and Kumar metamorphose last century's most hated figure with the contemporary twit known as 'the Hipster'. The notorious strip reveals how today's subculture personalities fetishise the authentic to create a new variety of conformism. For the first time, the infamous strip appears here in print. Using a combination of puns, parody, dark humour and visual gags the exploits of the Third Reich and the activities of the everyday Hipster are lampooned in a knowing fashion., In a competition of the most hated memes of modern times, "Hipster" has now caught up with "Hitler." Artists James Carr and Archana Kumar thought, why not combine the two? After all, Hitler was indeed a hipster of his time, a failed artist in Vienna scrounging up extra dollars or kroner painting quick architecture scenes for the tourists. In their heavily trafficked website, "hipsterhitler.com," these comic artists posit a new sort of history in which Hitler, wears Silverlake-trendy glasses, thrift store sweaters, and outspoken T-shirts, and the reader begins to quickly understand the history of Hitler in a new and strangely engaging way. The Feral House book of Hipster Hitler includes a few dozen pages of comics heretofore unseen online.