Entertainment | 03/31/2009 11:00 pm
The Funniest New Yorker Dog Cartoons, by George Booth (Images)
Dogs hanging on lightbulbs, dogs on shabby couches, dogs on the porch, dogs everywhere …
Photo Essay
George Booth has been creating cartoons for The New Yorker for 40 years. His new book, About Dogs, collects the award-winning illustrator’s best and funniest dog cartoons. Bill Cosby writes in the book’s introduction: “George Booth is so very, very wonderful,” and we agree. Click through the slideshow to enter Booth’s domestic drama — where dogs are the Greek chorus that points out how strange we humans really are.
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Want to see more photographs of dogs?
Click here for photographs of wOw women posing with their favorite pooches.
Click here for photographs from Gene Weingarten’s bookOld Dogs.
Click here for photographs of wOw readers’ loyal pets — and personal stories.
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A good laugh is always a nice way to start the day.
Thank you for George Booth.
Oddly enough some of these are for real.
When I sing my Maltese howls!
Can’t figure it out if he is joining me or he is jealous and wants to upstage me.