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Given that both Walt Disney and Hemingway were volunteer ambulance drivers for the Red Cross in World War I, it seems strange that no one has written a story in which they cross paths. And it was just this characteristic that convinced our artists to search for a point of contact between Ernest and Walt (Disney).” In Topolino #2341, a six-page article explained the project, praised Hemingway’s writing, and proclaimed “.the real life of Hemingway was extraordinary, rich with great travel and marvelous adventure. They are more mash-ups of Hemingway’s story elements, grand silliness, and Disney’s comic book sensibilities. Guido Scala’s Old Man and the Sea riff includes bits of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and even a ghost story. The comics aren’t straight adaptations, per se. In 2000, Italian comic artist Giorgio Cavazzano spearheaded an initiative called “8 X 8.49” (a nod to Hemingway’s The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories) this initiative challenged creators in the Accademia Disney to produce comics in Topolino based on Hemingway’s stories.
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But in Italy, where Hemingway was wounded in World War I and set two novels and several short stories , his cult of personality was particularly strong in comics. In general, these stories are never translated into English or sold in the United States. Strzyz also introduced me to European expert “Donaldists” and their online databases that keep track of storylines and characters, such as Inducks. He helped me identify the story, which appeared in 1984’s Adventure of Uncle Scrooge Treasure #3: The Trip to Key West ( Der Ausflug nach Key West). Eventually, I connected with my old friend Klaus Strzyz, a former editor and translator for Ehapa Verlag (Disney’s German comic book publisher).
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None of the museum docents knew where it came from, but the word balloons looked German. In one of the downstairs rooms, next to a doorway, someone had framed a comic book page of a Disneyfied-Hemingway appearing alongside Donald Duck. I first stumbled upon Hemingway in Disney while visiting his Key West home on a publicity stop for my book, Hidden Hemingway. Since 1987, the comic digest Topolino (Mickey Mouse’s name in Italy) has published more than ten stories featuring Hemingway as a character or based on one of the author’s stories. And in particular, Disney’s Italian comic book creators love Hemingway.