I seem to be in need of a good laugh today. So George Booth's work popped into my head. Most well known, I think, for his work in the New Yorker, I have loved Booth's hilarious drawings for years. Far as I'm concerned, no one and I mean NO ONE gets the hysterical underpinnings of a cat quite like Booth. And dogs? Forget about it. NO ONE draws disgruntled, sneaky, amused, aggravated, dyspeptic dogs like Booth. He is the master.
Read a terrific interview with Booth and see more samples of his work here.
Read a terrific interview with Booth and see more samples of his work here.
I always liked Booth - especially the dogs!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the dogs are great. But the cats, too. He is a very funny man. Look at those old ladies and old men. I see myself in some of them. HA!
ReplyDeleteWonderful dogs, cats, people!
ReplyDeleteKaty: Booth is a national treasure. He is just such a great cartoonish. Those little old ladies are wicked. Ha! But notice the dogs and cats in almost every cartoon. They're always just...there. Some are scratching for fleas too. HA!
ReplyDeleteI am rereading these cartoons, and I must say that the women's remarks are hilarious--from the park to the living room.
ReplyDeleteAnd off-point, as I don't know where to write this (and I am notorious for my off--point comments), is that my retired health care professional friend, to whom I gave "Mistress in the Art of Death," is loving it. She raved about it to me today, and, as usual, I got another friend into bad habits of staying up very late to read a mystery. (But, wow, is this book exactly right for her--woman doctor, 12th century England, and even anti-Semitism in the mix.)
It is such a good feeling to match the right friend with the right book! (And I'll get to borrow it.)
I can rise from the Phoenix only so many times is definitely a line from my family, without dog witnesses, a cat though.
ReplyDeleteKathy: We're very informal around here. Just write wherever and whenever you please. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, I love this whole matching the right book to the right friend idea. As 'Martha Stewart' says: it's a good thing. I say it, too. Because then you know that the book has a good chance of being read and appreciated. AND it always makes you feel better about your friends. ;)
With Ariana Franklin now being gone, you have a limited list of her books left to read but what's left is choice. I most especially loved the last two books in the series: GRAVE GOODS and A MURDEROUS PROCESSION.
As for Booth: yes, he's a total weisenheimmer. HA!
If I read the book by Franklin and like it, I"ll make sure my non-library using friend has the rest in the series. She works too hard--even retired, doing volunteer work, and deserves it.
ReplyDeleteSo Abe Books or Amazon used, here I come, and I'll get to read a genre I usually don't.
Lovely - especially the one about the phoenix :D
ReplyDeleteDorte: Yes, Booth is wonderful. I've been a phoenix once or twice in my life. Ha!
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