The Stick-Figure Antics of Hemingway’s Wartime Pals

What comes to mind when you think of Ernest Hemingway?

Simple declarative sentences, the banal horror of war, endless rounds of booze, and…whimsical schoolboy-style doodles?

Hemingway’s fellow ambulance drivers drew him some cartoons to cheer him up while he was in the hospital, and Slate has posted them in all their goofy glory.

Don’t worry—they involve plenty of short sentences, war, and liquor.

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