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Four by Four

Posted by Tom Crippen on January 5th, 2011 at 9:12 AM

Playboy Wednesday: Honeysett, Booth, Rodriques and Wilson in early ’70s Playboy

Four by Three

Posted by Tom Crippen on January 12th, 2010 at 9:12 AM

Playboy Wednesday: Three cartoons and a house ad by some of Playboy’s finest early ’70s contributors

George Booth’s Little Theater of Everyday Absurdities

Posted by Donald Phelps on January 12th, 2010 at 12:01 AM

George Booth’s cartoons, in large part, are theaters, staged vignettes, that, in their tones, mingle the cranky, bristling domesticity of the ’20s and ’30s Clifford Odets with the careening Surrealist/ Dadaist farce of Eugene Ionesco. Booth’s overall tone differs from many of his current colleagues at The New Yorker in its deft balancing of journalism and whimsy.