This week’s cover, “Around the Clock,” by George Booth:
, with his sui generis way of looking at the world, has established a style that is as instantly recognizable as it is beloved. Boothland is populated by a motley assortment of characters, many of whom are drawn straight from his childhood in small-town Missouri, as well as innumerable grungy dogs––including the star of this week’s cover.
Recently, at our request, Sarah sat down with her dad to talk about his work. The two shared some laughs as they revisited some of her favorite Booth cartoons.: It’s funny to imply, as you did on the cover, that a dog would watch a clock. You always say that animals share so much with people––they look at things much the way we do, and we can see ourselves in their expression.
That we did. They are funny! Something out of place is always funny: a dog eating somebody else’s lunch, people and critters not playing their expected roles, doing something no one ever imagined, like an elephant eating breakfast with you. I listened to the men and women in my family for a long time. Grandma Booth, Grandma Swindle, but also Grandpa Swindle, Grandpa Booth, Uncle Todd, Uncle Ray, Aunt Pansy––they all pitched in words that fascinated me. Sometimes those words overlapped, just like green beans on a plate.
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