On November 1, 2022, George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Died at 96.

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Hat tip, brooklynite

Source: New York Times

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.

His daughter and only immediate survivor, Sarah Booth, said the cause was complications of dementia.

In a typical Booth cartoon, a lot happens at once. A stunned dog leaps three feet in the air. A shocked cat bounds for an open window, knocking a newspaper from the hands of a shaken man — all as his frumpy wife stands in a kitchen doorway with blackened eyes, announcing: “Eyeliner is back!”

Or, as a score of cats lounge in a parlor and a man in pajamas scowls into a newspaper in his easy chair, his wife in the kitchen says: “Edgar, please run down to the shopping center right away, and get some milk and cat food. Don’t get canned tuna, or chicken, or liver, or any of those awful combinations. Shop around and get a surprise. The pussies like surprises.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/arts/george-booth-dead.html





Wed Nov 2, 2022: George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Dies at 96

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1. He was the best. I'm now wondering if I've kept my New Yorker subscription all these years....

…..mostly because of his great stuff in the past.