George Booth, who created a cartoon world of boisterous, wacky characters in the pages of the New Yorker, drawing cross-eyed dogs, grumpy cats and neurotic but good-natured humans while helping ...

In the best cartoons, the words and the drawings are conjoined. Booth’s drawings, even without captions, are hilarious. Men and women, cats and dogs, electrical outlets and bathtubs: each detail ...

The longtime New Yorker cartoonist George Booth, right, with the magazine’s cartoon editor at the time, Robert Mankoff, in 2001. In a half century at the magazine, Mr. Booth drew roughly a score ...

In the days after 9/11, when a return to normal life felt unimaginably hard, Booth supplied the sole “cartoon” in the issue following the attacks: a drawing of Mrs. Ritterhouse, her fiddle on ...

Booth said that the columns provide the necessary context to understand the cartoons, and that they are open to misinterpretation when depicted by themselves. Still, Jewish community members said that ...