George Booth Obituary

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

George was the son of schoolteachers; his mother Ira (Swindle) Booth, who was also a musician and fine artist and cartoonist, and his father, William Earl “Billy” Booth, became a school administrator in Fairfax, Missouri, where Booth grew up on a farm.

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.