{"id":32292,"date":"2022-11-07T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/11\/07\/cartoonist-and-marine-vet-george-booth-dies-at-96\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:12:10","slug":"cartoonist-and-marine-vet-george-booth-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2022\/11\/07\/cartoonist-and-marine-vet-george-booth-dies-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker cartoonist and Marine veteran George Booth dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist<\/a> 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. He was 96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A New Yorker spokesperson announced that Booth died Tuesday in New York City. The cause was complications from dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGeorge Booth was a remarkable artist <\/a>who sold his first drawing to The New Yorker in 1969 and filled the magazine with a kind of wild delight for decades thereafter,\u201d New Yorker editor David Remnick said in a statement. \u201cThrough his countless drawings and covers, he created an astonishing world, one that was wholly his own: chaotic, strange, beyond hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booth\u2019s pen-and-ink sketches often depicted farcical domestic settings, such as a dog deliriously rolling on a kitchen floor and a frazzled looking husband and wife at a table nearby. The caption reads: \u201cDon\u2019t give the dog any more coffee.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booth also uses a couple at the kitchen table, with a cat perched between them, for a sprawling portrait that throws in a rowboat, various buckets and tools and a chair hanging from the wall. The man is explaining to his downcast spouse: \u201cThe way I see it, Wendy, you only go around once.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t