1989 [3]

THERE IS A FAIR BATCH OF THIS previously-unseen [well, mostly!] material to get through, and perhaps this next item should have been dubbed 1889 due to the fact that I may well have drawn it in 1989: the Centenery Year  of the birth of Adolf Hitler, easily the most despised figure of the 20th Century.....and whose Legacy extends to ordering the release of  explosive bombs which landed  in the very next street from where I am writing this blog.

Like many others, I have long since had a fascination with the German Fuhrer: his disturbing crimes against Humanity still chill to the very bone, even decades after discovering the devastating facts of the acts that sprang from his polluted mind....if nothing else, Hitler gave us knowledge of the depravities human beings will stoop to if the conditions are right in order to commit mass atrocities. I have only encountered petty atrocities in my time: thankfully, nobody wielding real power like Hitler did has been able to affect my lifestyle, in my lifetime,  anywhere to the extent that he was able to.........


After that sombre last paragraph, back to this  drawing: this is not the first Hitler image to appear in this archive, but I reckon it's the best one: very stylized and there is no doubt I would have been executed for drawing this image, had I been unfortunate to exist under his regime....I was recently reading about a Wartime  Female German Factory Worker who got guillotined for cracking an anti-Hitler joke, about him jumping off the Eiffel Tower.



BARREL-SCRAPING BONUS!  :------------plate two consists of the bizarre bonus of a demented doodle I rediscovered on the back page of the above drawing: a sort of King Kong meets Batman telephone-directory-style meandering----the Tim Burton BATMAN live-action film with Jack Nicolson as the JOKER was huge in 1989, of course......







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