George Booth Doc Film At Rooftop Films Summer Series
The documentary, Drawing Life, by Nathan Fitch, celebrates one of The New Yorker‘s cartoon gods (Mr. Booth turned 95 just a few days ago). It will be shown as part of the short films series on the evening of July 17. Details here!
The Spill‘s George Booth A-Z entry:
George Booth (photo above taken in NYC 2016, courtesy of Liza Donnelly) Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. New Yorker work: June 14, 1969 – . Key collections: Think Good Thoughts About A Pussycat (Dodd, Mead, 1975), Rehearsal’s Off! (Dodd, Mead, 1976), Omnibooth: The Best of George Booth ( Congdon & Weed, 1984), The Essential George Booth, Compiled and Edited by Lee Lorenz ( Workman, 1998).
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Tom Toro on The Caption Contest Podcast
Mr. Toro,who began contributing toThe New Yorker in 2010, talks to the Caption Contest trio about all kinds of New Yorkery stuff (such as how he got into The New Yorker) not to mention a few cartoonists (Ed Steed, David Sipress, BEK, Roz Chast,* and Sam Gross, to name five).
Listen here...and be sure to check out their archive of interviews.
*From the Spill‘s Myth-Buster Dept.: Mr. Toro at one point in the podcast (around the 50:50 mark) says:
“You know, Roz Chast has never ever published a cartoon that has the adobe caslon New Yorker font at the bottom. All of her stuff is hand written.”
Well… there’s this from the issue of September 6, 1993:
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