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Dec 7, 1997 · Personal History by John Updike, from 1997: Before the author decided to become a writer, he idolized cartoonists. ... A cartoonist partook of this process at the tentative, scratchy, inky outset ...
Early life. John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His father, Wesley, was a high school mathematics teacher, the model for several sympathetic father figures in Updike's early works. Because Updike's mother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, had literary dreams of her own, books were a large part of the boy's early ...
Jan 14, 2015 · Updike’s attention to details such as Gray’s portrayal of hands or his distinct lettering style bespeaks the eyes of a fellow craftsman. The cartoonist Chester Brown once told me he loved Gray’s expressive use of hands. He was surprised when I told him that John Updike had also taken note of the same aspect of Gray’s art.
Apr 21, 2014 · During the Second World War, Updike’s mother, Linda, worked in a parachute factory, and she managed to save enough money to buy back her father’s eighty-three-acre farm, in Plowville, eleven ...
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Cartoonist. After graduating from Harvard, Updike's earliest ambition was to become a cartoonist, attending The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Updike's Mother. John Updike's mother was a writer herself and inspired Updike to write when he was young. "One of my earliest memories is of seeing her at her desk ...
Dec 23, 2015 · This is one of many passages where Updike talks about his childhood love of comics, a theme that recurs not just in essays but also in poems and short stories. What deserves attention in this passage is not only what Updike is saying but the textured and sensual language he’s using when he recalls the “oilclothy paper” and the “buttony ...
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Nov 18, 2002 · Amaster craftsman of language, John Updike also studied as a young man to become a painter. Updike the artist draws a woman as real as Rabbit - Los Angeles Times
