Comic John Updike drew for The Lampoon while a Harvard student

John Updike, who passed away at 76 this past Tuesday, is remembered at The New Yorker by E. L. Doctorow, Jonathan Lethem, and others. The New Yorker was the big literary magazine where Updike spent most of his time, writing more than 800 pieces for the magazine during his life. Looking back: In an article from a 1984 issue of The London Review of Books, James Atlas described Updike the critic as “gracious, even-tempered, gay, an urbane and witty host introducing his favourite books to the readers he’s invited over.” Here’s a nice post about Updike at the Ploughshares blog. And here’s a mention about Updike from The Lampoon, the campus magazine Updike drew and wrote for while a student at Harvard; the magazine also includes links to two comics Updike drew for the magazine.