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George Booth & Matthew Diffee

New Yorker Cartoonists, in conversation. Special Guest: Sophie McCall

TUESday, May 11, 2010  | herbst theatre , 8pm

George Booth sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker in 1969, and since then his work has become a beloved fixture on the pages of the magazine. Booth’s eye for detail harnesses the ordinary – ironing boards, jerry-rigged light bulbs, pets, and hapless car mechanics – to find the humor in everyday life. A former U. S. Marine from northwest Missouri, Booth first published his cartoons about life in the service for the Marine publication “Leatherneck.” One of the recurring elements of George Booth’s cartoons has been a profusion of dogs, though the cartoonist only owned one briefly, while still in the Marines. Booth’s dogs are as expressive as the cartoons themselves, often punctuating human exchanges with a grimace or raised eyebrows and perked ears, claw-deep in carpet. His most recent book, About Dogs, collects some of Booth’s finest and funniest canine work.

Texas native Matthew Diffee is one of the most prolific of the new generation of cartoonists at the New Yorker. He has had over two hundred cartoons in the magazine thus far. He's the co-founder of "The Rejection Show," a monthly Off-Broadway event in New York featuring the rejected work of otherwise successful comedic writers and performers. In addition to his prolific cartooning, Diffee writes a blog for The Huffington Post, can play both banjo and fiddle, and produces and hosts “The Steam Powered Hour,” a monthly live music and comedy variety show that proclaims itself, “Manhattan’s hippest hootenanny.”

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