Description

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Ernest Hemingway: Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, war hero, famed novelist, journalist, adventurer — and inspiration to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and Goofy!

The year: 1999. The place: Italy. Fan-favorite Venetian Disney cartoonist Giorgio Cavazzano dared a creative team to take its cues from Ernest Hemingway for a striking, cinematic, and occasionally silly new series of Duckburg tales!

In this original Disney collection, Hemingway’s “The Battler” and “The Killers” inspire new Mickey and Peg Leg Pete parodies while our title adventure features Mickey meeting “Ernest” in person!  From Donald’s bid for knighthood as “The Duck Who Would Be King” to Peg Leg Pete’s invasion of a diner in “Bad Boys” and Uncle Scrooge’s shark-wrangling in “The Older Man and the Sea,” these epics range from direct pastiches to shorts loosely based on “Papa” Hemingway’s work — each paired with its authors’ “liner notes,” telling the fascinating tale of how and why they were inspired.

About the Author

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Robert K. Elder is the author or editor of 20+ books, including Hidden Hemingway and Hemingway in Comics. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and many other publications. You can visit his website at robertkelder.com.

Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian cartoonist and one of the most famous Disney comics artists in the world. He is recognized for bringing his outrageous energy, emotive characters, and wild “techno” style defining the modern expressive Italian style of Disney comics.

Genova-born Andrea Freccero (1968-present) was trained at Milan’s Accademia Disney and is today Art Supervisor for Panini’s Italian Disney titles, as well as one of the most celebrated Donald and Scrooge cover artists around the world.

Alessandro Perina (1958-present) is the beloved artist of such modern Disney comics classics as “Scrooge’s Last Adventure” and numerous X-Mickey and Wizards of Mickey tales.