Just out from Jack De Bellis, John Updike’s Early Years (Lehigh University Press). The author is responsible for a number of books on Updike, including a two volume bibliography as well as The John Updike Encyclopedia. As Updike fans likely know, he was intent on being a cartoonist in his younger days.
One chapter of my book treat Updike as a cartoonist in high school. His drawings are fresh and often funny.