George Booth Ink Cartoon Drawing for The New Yorker Magazine
Item Details
Some daaaaay my Prince wil come….., circa 1973
Ink drawing on paper
Signed to lower right
George Booth is a comic artist and illustrator known for his almost fifty years of cartoons in The New Yorker. Born in Cainsville, Missouri to two schoolteachers, he was encouraged to draw by his mother who also worked as a cartoonist and fine artist. He was drafted into the United States Marines in World War II and then again in the Korean War. Here, Booth got his start drawing cartoons for Leatherneck magazine. In between and following the wars, he studied at the Chicago Academy of Art, the Corcoran School of Art, the School of the Visual Arts, and Adelphi College. Booth finally settled in New York City where he worked as an art director for several trade magazines, and eventually as a contributing artist for The New Yorker. Over the years he became known for his particular quirky style of humor that drew from life experience in rural Missouri, time in the war, and the uniquely urban lifestyle of New York. He has several recurring characters including cavemen, inept car mechanics, cats and dogs, the man in the bathtub, and ‘Mrs. Ritterhouse’, a character based on his mother. In addition, he has illustrated several children’s books including Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss and Here, George by Sandra Boynton. In 1993, the National Cartoonists Society honored him with the Gag Cartoon Award and again in 2010, with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award.
Condition
- toning and scattered foxing; wear and curling to edges of collaged pieces; nicks and abrasions to frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 8.5" W x 11.5" H.
Item #
ITMG422337