I've loved his cartoons.
And I hadn't realized that his was the only cartoon that ran in The New Yorker right after 9/11.
George Booth Took In Life and Laughed
The cartoonist—who depicted dogs, porch-sitters, mechanics, cave-dwellers, bath-takers, military men, yokels, and churchgoers—worked and lived with uncontainable self-amusement.
In the days after 9/11, when a return to normal life felt unimaginably hard, Booth supplied the sole “cartoon” in the issue following the attacks: a drawing of Mrs. Ritterhouse, her fiddle on the floor, her eyes closed in prayer, a cat nearby covering its face with its paws.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...fe-and-laughed
George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Dies at 96
He depicted a quirky cast of people and pets — notably his mad-as-a-hatter bull terrier, which became a reader favorite and the magazine’s unofficial mascot.
George Booth, the New Yorker cartoonist who created a world of oddballs sharing life’s chaos with a pointy-eared bull terrier that once barked a flower to death, and sometimes with a herd of cats that shredded couches and window shades between sweet naps, died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 96.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/a...ooth-dead.html
No one drew funnier dogs than this New Yorker cartoonist did
All those twitchy English bull terriers and quirky cats. There are ramshackle front porches and naked light fixtures and no-frills curtains. Then there is the characteristic menagerie of low-rent household items that feel not only alive but also beautiful through his eyes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comic...er-cartoonist/
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