{"id":5041,"date":"2020-12-31T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:16:30","slug":"new-yorker-cartoonist-blog-features-updikes-thurber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2020\/12\/31\/new-yorker-cartoonist-blog-features-updikes-thurber\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker cartoonist blog features Updike&#8217;s Thurber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin posted an entry today on <strong><em>Ink Spill: New Yorker Cartoonists News and Events<\/em><\/strong> titled <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelmaslin.com\/updikes-thurber\/\">&#8220;Updike&#8217;s Thurber.&#8221;<\/a> In it,\u00a0 readers get a rare glimpse of the cartoon dog that Thurber drew especially for a young &#8216;tween fan named John Updike (courtesy of Miranda Updike).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-31-at-11.44.07-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5042\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-31-at-11.44.07-AM-287x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-31-at-11.44.07-AM-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-31-at-11.44.07-AM.png 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For those of us who treasure Thurber\u2019s art, there is I would suggest, nothing\u00a0 more wonderful than a Thurber drawn dog. In Updike\u2019s Introduction to Lee Lorenz\u2019s <em>The World of William Steig,\u00a0<\/em>he tells us that in 1944, when he was 12 years old, he wrote Thurber a fan letter<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Thurber responded with the drawing you see at the top of this post&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In musing about the relationship between Updike and Thurber, Maslin shared his &#8220;favorite Updike description of Thurber&#8217;s art: &#8216;&#8230;oddly tender&#8230;a personal art that captured in ingenous scrawls a modern man&#8217;s bitter experience and nervous excess.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin posted an entry today on Ink Spill: New Yorker Cartoonists News and Events titled &#8220;Updike&#8217;s Thurber.&#8221; In it,\u00a0 readers get a rare glimpse of the cartoon dog that Thurber drew especially for a young &#8216;tween &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2020\/12\/31\/new-yorker-cartoonist-blog-features-updikes-thurber\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,70,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-updike-in-pop-culture","category-updike-quoted","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}