In 1992, John Updike wrote, ‘It’s all in the ears,’ in this paean to the world’s most famous mouse and how he achieved iconic status. Updike, an accomplished cartoonist himself, displays a draughtsman’s precision in this extract from his preface to The Art of Mickey Mouse: Artists Interpret the World’s Favourite Mouse (Hyperion), edited by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe.
