George Booth, City Slicker

The New Yorker Radio Hour | Nov 20, 2015

George Booth started drawing cartoons when he was three and a half years old. (His first was a race car stuck in the mud.) Now nearly ninety, he’s been contributing to The New Yorker for over forty-five years. He sat down with Matt Diffee, a fellow cartoonist who considers Booth his hero, to discuss the virtues of dogs versus cats, and other big questions of the cartoon world.

Produced by Sara Nics. 

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