George Booth Cause of Death

American cartoonist, George Booth, has died. He died at the age of 96. George Booth died from complications of dementia at his home in Brooklyn, on November 1, 2022.

Booth’s daughter, Sarah said that “All his life, he’d sit in his studio and come up with captions and laugh at his own work”.

George Booth worked for the New Yorker magazine. His cartoons usually featured an older everyman, everywoman, or everycouple beset by modern complexity, perplexing each other, or interacting with cats and dogs.

As a civilian, Booth moved to New York City where she struggled as an artist, married, and then worked as an art director in the magazine world. He also worked on the comic strip Spot in 1956.

Booth also created the comic strip Local Item in 1986.