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Dec 7, 1997 · By John Updike. December 7, 1997. In some issues of the Harvard Lampoon, over half the art work was by Updike. Drawings by John Updike; courtesy the Harvard Lampoon. In the thirties and forties ...
Jan 28, 2009 · Dan Wasserman at the Boston Globe writes about the writer and long-time admirer of cartoon and comic art here. As previously covered on the Bloghorn, Updike was one of many well-known public figures who dabbled in cartooning but found they lacked the full set of skills necessary to survive in its competitive world.
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
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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Long before he began writing novels, John Updike wanted to be a cartoonist. "Mickey Mouse and I are the same age," says the twinkle-eyed novelist on a recent afternoon visit to the New York ...
Jan 15, 2015 · “I can’t remember the moment when I fell in love with cartoons, I was so young,” John Updike once recalled in Hogan’s Alley magazine. “I still have a Donald Duck book, on oilclothy paper in big-print format, and remember a smaller, cardboard-covered book based on the animated cartoon Three Little Pigs. It was the intense stylization ...
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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.
