“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 ...

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 ...

FILE - New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, left, looks over work by George Booth at the magazine's offices in New York on Nov. 27, 2001. Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker ...

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 ...

Roz Chast on George Booth’s Cartoons. Every object is lovingly drawn, in a way that only Booth could draw them. Every detail enhances the scene. By Roz Chast. February 10, 2025.

FILE - New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, left, looks over work by George Booth at the magazine's offices in New York on Nov. 27, 2001. Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker ...

George Booth, known for decades of wacky cartoons in the "New Yorker," died this week at the age of 96. Sponsor Message. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: George Booth put a lot of dogs and cats in his cartoons.

FILE - New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, left, looks over work by George Booth at the magazine's offices in New York on Nov. 27, 2001. Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who ...

George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of dogs and cats and the human beings somehow in charge of their well being, has died.

FILE - New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff, left, looks over work by George Booth at the magazine's offices in New York on Nov. 27, 2001. Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker ...