Hemingway in Comics

Robert K. Elder

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781631014116
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature—reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner—extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with Superman, Mickey Mouse, Captain Marvel, and Cerebus, he has even battled fascists alongside Wolverine in Spain and teamed up with Shade to battle adversaries in the Area of Madness.

Robert K. Elder's research into Hemingway's comic presence demonstrates the truly international reach of Hemingway as a pop culture icon. In more than 120 appearances across multiple languages, Hemingway is often portrayed as the hypermasculine legend: bearded, boozed up, and ready to throw a punch. But just as often, comic book writers see past the bravado to the sensitive artist looking for validation. Hemingway's role in these comics ranges from the divine to the ridiculous, as his image is recorded, distorted, lampooned, and whittled down to its essential parts.

As Elder notes, comic book creators and Hemingway share a natural kinship. The comic book page demands an economy of words, much like Hemingway's less-is-more "iceberg theory, " only in graphic form. In addition, he turned out to be the perfect avatar for comic book artists wanting to tell history-rich stories, as he experienced beautiful places during the most chaotic times: Paris in the 1920s, Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Cuba on the brink of revolution, France during World War I and during World War II just after the Allies landed in Normandy.

Hemingway in Comics provides a unique lens for considering one of our most influential authors. Not only for the dedicated Hemingway fan, this book will appeal to all those with an appreciation for comics, pop culture, and the absurd.

Index

Page references in bold refer to illustrations.

Abyss, The, 37

Accademia Disney, 59, 63

Across the River and into the Trees (Hemingway novel), 8, 233; Richard Cantwell, 233

adaptations: Aristotle’s categories, 154–56; comparing, 159–60; definition of, 153; graphic, 156–58; moral formation, 155; serial, 155

Adventures of Blanche, 69

Adventures of Uncle Scrooge Treasury #3: Der Ausflug nach Key West (The Trip to Key West), 25; Donald Duck, 25; Donald’s nephews, 25; Ernest Hemingway, 25; Sloppy Joe’s Bar, 25

Aeschylus, 154

Aftershock, 200

“After the Storm” (Hemingway short story), 65

Aidans, Edouard, 10

Alabama Song (Leroy), 147

Ambulance Drivers, The (Morris), 64

American Red Cross, xii, 17, 60, 64

American Tobacco Company, 12

Anderson, Sherwood, 34, 83, 198

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 129

Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’ Roses), 242

Aristotle, 154–56, 159–60

Arlo and Janis, 249

Arthur B. Heurtley House, 114

Astiberri, 122

Atlantic Monthly, 2

Atom, 22

Aujourd’hui, Demain, Hier, 188

Austen, Jane, 113

Bachalo, Chris, 246

Bacon, Francis, 150

Bad Apple, The (Edward Hemingway), 92

Bagley, Aaron, 149–50

Baldo, 251

Baldwin, James, 93

Barbaro, Graziano, 62

Barnes, Pancho, 121

Baron, Mike, 32

Barry Ween Boy Genius 2.0 #2, 67–68; Ernest Hemingway in, 67–68

baseball cards, 12–13

Baseball Hall of Fame, 12

Bates, James, 94

“Battler, The” (Hemingway short story), 64

Batton, Jean, 121

Bautista, Gabriel. See Gabo

Beckett, Samuel, 73

Beever, Antony, 30

Bell, Alexander Graham, 22

Beowulf, 153

Berenson, Bernard, 160

Berk, Howard, xii

Beware the Creeper #1, 2, 5, 72; Ernest Hemingway, 72; Judith Benoir, 72

Big Book of Vice, 47–48, 69; “Alcohol,” 47; Cuba, 47, 48; Ernest Hemingway, 47, 48; “Fantasy Island,” 47; Ju...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• A Note about That Sweater
• 1917–1960: Hemingway’s High School Yearbook to Tintin
• Hemingway’s Superheroes by Sharon Hamilton
• 1961–1990: Hemingway’s Suicide and Early Guest Appearances
• 1991–2000: Hemingway Goes Meta—Time Travel and Hero Worship
• Topolino: Hemingway in Italy’s Disney Comics (1987–2001)
• 2001–2005: The Hemingway Comic Universe Expands
• “I Think We Should Steal Some Money”: The Left Bank Gang and Jason’s Hemingway by Jace Gatzemeyer
• 2006–2013: Hemingway: Illustrated by His Grandson, as Papa the Indie Icon, and His Graphic Canon
• Moral Formation and Graphic Adaptations of Hemingway’s Works by Sean C. Hadley
• 2014–2019: Hemingway at Sea, in the Afterlife, and Beyond
• 2020–: Hemingway Comics and the Future
• Hemingway Oddities and Ephemera
• Hemingway Comic Roundup
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography and Further Reading
• Index