“My favorite thing about the holidays is the people I love,” George Booth says of “Doggone, It’s That Time of Year Again!,” the cover of this week's issue. He continues:
We celebrate Christmas with Dionne, my wife, and my daughter, Sarah, and we got a couple of pussycats—Schrodinger and Max. (We don’t have any dogs at the moment.) I grew up in northwest Missouri, about thirty miles from the border with Nebraska, twenty-five from Kansas, and twenty from Iowa, tucked up in the corner—corn country, snow country. It was a wonderful little town called Fairfax. My dad was superintendent of the schools and I had two brothers (I still got one). My mother, Mawmaw Booth, passed away some years ago. I feel her presence all the time. When I was three and half, I drew a race car stuck in the mud. I laughed at it and laughed at it, and she started encouraging me to be a cartoonist—and it went on from there. But, you know, when you publish that cover, she may come back.
See below for three other holiday covers by George Booth.
“A Laugh on Santa,” by George Booth, December 15, 2003.|||
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“Holiday Howls,” by George Booth, December 13, 2004.|||
"Ho-ho-ho!” by George Booth, December 13, 2010.|||
