George Booth drew his first cartoon at age three. “I showed it to my mother, and she was fascinated by the fact that I thought it was funny,” he said, in 1988. “In all the years since then, I’ve never wanted to do anything else.”
Booth has a sense of humor that was indelibly shaped by his childhood, which was of a type that doesn’t exist anymore.’s cartoons can look at an English bull terrier and not wonder whether its equine muzzle, pointed ears, and claustrophobically arranged eyes weren’t inspired by his drawings rather than the other way around.
Booth was born in the kitchen of his grandparents’ farmhouse in Cainsville, Missouri, a town so small that you pretty much have to know where it is already in order to find it on a map. He speaks of washing his teeth, not brushing them. He calls an outhouse a toilet, because the only toilets his family had while he was growing up were outhouses. He drew his first cartoon at the age of three, when he was scarcely old enough to hold a pencil.
Nathan Fitch, who made this documentary, lives in Brooklyn, not northern Missouri, but he feels a kinship nevertheless. “George served in the Marines at the same time as my grandfather, who was shot in the heart taking Iwo Jima,” he said. “My motivation in making the piece was not only George’s art but also the fact that he was the last of a generation. To me, he is a person with a sense of decency who straddles worlds, rural and urban. That’s rare these days.
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