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Early pages from\u00a0Here, George! <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Even with the most contemplative toddler on your lap, a dramatic reading of Sandra Boynton\u2019s\u00a0Moo, Baa, La La La!<\/em>\u00a0will probably top out at two minutes. That\u2019s approximately how long it took Boynton\u2014the beloved children\u2019s author who\u2019s sold more than\u00a0seventy\u00a0million books to date\u2014to conceive of her latest board book. It\u2019s called\u00a0Here, George!<\/em>\u00a0and features George, a white dog with a red collar who happens to have a secret: he\u2019s wild about dancing.<\/p>\n

Boynton\u2019s illustrations are full of round, fluffy, wide-eyed, quizzical and adorable critters. Even her rhinos might be fun on a playdate. But George breaks the mold. He is in need of a wash and fluff. His toenails could use some attention. There doesn\u2019t appear to be a single ounce of squish on his very hard, boney body. And if he ever met a Boynton singing pig, chances are he\u2019d scare the la la la!<\/em>\u00a0right out of him.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s because George is not a Boynton. He\u2019s a Booth.<\/p>\n

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This past August, Boynton, sixty-four, wound up in Brooklyn at a block party with bipedal George Booth, the legendary\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>cartoonist, ninety-one-years young and known, among other things, for cartoons of dirty garages and pets forced to endure lunatic owners. He spent that afternoon parked in a folding chair drawing cartoons for the neighborhood children. As Motown music played, the nonagenarian quickly sketched a couple hapless dogs on a piece of printer paper\u2014one sitting down, one mid-twirl on one leg\u2014and gave them to Boynton as a gift. On the car ride home to Connecticut, with the drawings on her lap and the music playing in her head, Boynton conceived of the whole story. In a couple days, with the help of Photoshop, she\u2019d assembled a twenty-nine-page book. The vast majority of the illustrations are simply Booth\u2019s two original block-party drawings, slightly manipulated, with just a few extras\u2014a window, a car driving away\u2014borrowed from other cartoons that Boynton found in her collection of Booth books, then scanned into her computer and Frankensteined together. Booth generally relegates his animals to below-the-line status, though they often steal the show anyway, but for these\u00a0twenty-nine pages, George is the undisputed star. Boynton emailed Booth thumbnails of the images to review. He was thrilled. The book is set to be published by Simon\u00a0and\u00a0Schuster next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know any artist better than you,\u201d Boynton said to Booth on a recent, unseasonably hot Wednesday evening in his Crown Heights living room. The air conditioner was blaring, a last-season holiday-scented candle was burning, and Schr\u00f6dinger the cat was meowing loudly underneath Booth\u2019s drafting table. \u201cMaybe Rembrandt. But he wasn\u2019t as funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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George Booth and Sandra Boynton in Booth\u2019s Crown Heights apartment.<\/p><\/div>\n

Boynton had come into town with the sole purpose of tearing apart the mock-ups. The plan was to go over every illustration and Boothify whatever she\u2019d Boyntonized out of necessity. Before Here, George!<\/em>, Boynton had only ever collaborated with her husband, who passed away in 2014. She generally prefers to write and illustrate her own books, but made an exception for Booth, whom she calls her only idol.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea what an exhausted Booth dog looks like,\u201d Boynton said sheepishly, turning to a page in which she\u2019d flipped Booth\u2019s dancing dog\u00a0ninety\u00a0degrees so that it appeared he was lying on his back. \u201cThis is not as good as yours. I added a tongue, see?\u201d A friendly, plump, pink tongue flopped out of the dog\u2019s grizzled mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think you\u2019re a genius,\u201d Booth replied, shaking his head in disbelief and delight. \u201cThe little squirts are going to love this!\u201d<\/p>\n

Boynton pressed on. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t know what to do with the haunch here,\u201d she said, pointing to an illustration of George lying with his head on his paws, his legs out behind. \u201cI used the top half as you drew it, and then for the back, sort of \u2026 \u201d she trailed off. Booth was already a few pages ahead. \u201cLook at that happy tail!\u201d he crowed. Then he let out a characteristic hoot, which evolved into a giggle, then crested into a chortle.<\/p>\n

In manipulating Booth\u2019s drawings, Boynton had done what Booth himself sometimes does: taken the head from this dog, cut it out, and attached it to another body. It\u2019s a way of preserving the moment of inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of George\u2019s best things have been sketched onto napkins and paper tablecloths, \u00e0 la Toulouse-Lautrec,\u201d Dione, his longtime wife, once told a reporter. To maintain the unfettered, improvisational quality, he\u2019ll take what he sketches quickly, do a little surgery, and run it through a copy machine.<\/p>\n

Booth, tall and lanky, with a pair of Vans on his feet, didn\u2019t draw anything on that particular afternoon with Boynton, though in his left breast pocket was a sheet of paper, folded neatly into six squares with a pen clipped on top, in case the spirit moved him. He took it out to check and found a nasal adhesive on one side. \u201cSee, I took that thing off my nose, and stuck it right on there!\u201d he said, giggling. But even when he\u2019s not drawing, he\u2019s never not working. He tears out bits of the day\u2019s paper or browses the giveaway pile in\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u2019s offices for anything that might contain the shred of an idea. (He\u2019d recently been making his way through\u00a0In the Shadow of the Moon: The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses<\/em>\u00a0and underlined \u201cBut who\u00a0needs<\/em>\u00a0the sky anyway?\u201d) He writes it all down on a piece of unlined paper, circles some things, crosses out others, and stars whatever\u2019s worth revisiting. His drafting table almost sags under the piles of books, rubber-banded newspapers, clippings, and notes.<\/p>\n

One such set of notes, crammed with a riot of black writing, had a phrase circled: \u201cMilsap had a dream last night about new growth in the tire industry.\u201d Booth read it over aloud slowly, paused, then laughed heartily. \u201cMilsap! That\u2019s a funny name!\u201d Lately, the newspaper has been a fount of inspiration. \u201cYou take one of these hyphenated words that a politician says, slap it on someone\u2019s carburetor, then you\u2019ve got something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s written a stack of children\u2019s books, some with Dr. Seuss, and published countless cartoons in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, he\u2019s reluctant\u2014or perhaps too bright\u2014to expound upon the differences between writing for three-year-olds and writing for intellectuals. When posed the question, he thought for a second, then brightening, said, \u201cGreat question!\u201d and, by way of an answer, stuffed an entire paper napkin from his jean pocket into his mouth, eyes twinkling. When pressed, he allowed that, no matter the audience, \u201cI look for one thing: human interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From Here, George! <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Shortly after Boynton arrived, Here, George! <\/em>was tossed aside, and the work session devolved into a bit of a stand-up routine. Booth entertained Boynton with stories of his childhood growing up in Cainsville, Missouri, (\u201cpopulation: seventy!\u201d); the first cartoon he ever drew, at age\u00a0three (\u201ca racer car stuck in the mud\u2014it made me laugh, and laugh, and laugh!\u201d); enlisting as a marine, where he got his start cartooning at the marine publication\u00a0Leatherneck<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cI love their foul language\u201d); and his great-grandfather (Fly, a full-blooded Cherokee). Afterward, there was nothing left to do but order in from the local Asian spot\u2014beef teriyaki and edamame for Booth, his standard weekly order, and chicken dumplings and miso soup for Boynton. It seemed\u00a0Hey, George!<\/em>\u00a0didn\u2019t need to be Boothified after all.<\/p>\n

At a conversational lull, Boynton pressed on once more, just to be sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee here, I moved the pupil in the eye,\u201d she said, turning to a close-up of the eponymous George. With the inching of a black dot two millimeters to the left, the pooch was now looking mournfully and adorably ahead, instead of off\u00a0to the side, vexed.<\/p>\n

Booth playfully poked Boynton in the shoulder with his index finger. \u201cYou\u2019ve ruined it! Keep your hands off my art!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you\u2019re happy with it?\u201d she sighed, giving up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not happy,\u201d Booth said with a hoot, \u201cI\u2019m giddy!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sophie<\/span> Brickman is a writer and editor based in New York City. Her work has appeared in<\/em> The New Yorker,<\/em>\u00a0the<\/em> New York Times,<\/em> and<\/em>\u00a0the<\/em> San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s called\u00a0Here, George!\u00a0and features George, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[3618,30933,5869,1887,9379,30926,30927,30924,30931,30925,40,30934],"class_list":["post-116436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-childrens-books","tag-crown-heights","tag-dr-seuss","tag-gainesville","tag-george","tag-george-booth","tag-hey","tag-in-the-shadow-of-the-moon","tag-leatherneck","tag-sandra-boynton","tag-the-new-yorker","tag-toulouse-lautrec"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDrawing Dogs in George Booth's Living Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What happens when two legendary children's book artists, Sandra Boynton and George Booth, get together to collaborate?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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