Appreciation: John Updike, Impassioned Comics Fan

From his 1994 letter to the editor of the Boston Globe: “I can’t believe that you’re cutting ‘Spiderman’ — the only comic strip in the Globe, except for ‘Doonesbury’ half the time, worth reading. Do think again in making way for what sounds like one more jejune set of unfunny panels pitched at the nonexistent (or at least nonreading) X-generation.”