George Booth, who created a cartoon world of boisterous, wacky characters in the pages of the New Yorker, drawing cross-eyed dogs, grumpy cats and neurotic but good-natured humans while helping ...

The cartoonist and author of “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant” revisits the style of Booth, including his celebrated cartoon “Ip Gissa Gul.” ...

The longtime New Yorker cartoonist George Booth, right, with the magazine’s cartoon editor at the time, Robert Mankoff, in 2001. In a half century at the magazine, Mr. Booth drew roughly a score ...

“Life is hard and damned unfair!” the cartoonist George Booth liked to recite, in a booming voice, and then—guffaw!—crack up.It was a line he’d first heard from his former boss at the ...

Booth was born in small-town Missouri and, encouraged by his mother, amused himself by drawing his own cartoons by age 4. He studied art and then drew for publication during World War II.

George Booth, 91, is a New Yorker cartoonist whose work often includes pets reacting to household events. He has illustrated more than 10 books, including “Here, George!” (Little Simon), with ...

Since Oct. 7, Booth has published several cartoons criticizing Israel, President Joe Biden’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war, and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu — many of which have been ...

George Booth, known for decades of wacky cartoons in the "New Yorker," died this week at the age of 96. George Booth put a lot of dogs and cats in his cartoons. They weren't traditionally cute but ...