“Christmas has always been a high point for me, ever since I was three and a half and started cartooning,” the artist behind this week’s cover, George Booth, who will turn ninety in 2016, says. “I love holidays, and I can’t think of many I don’t cherish. The first town that I lived in as a kid had a population of seventy-five; we celebrated just Thanksgiving and Christmas. But I’ve been influenced by living in New York, I guess. Now I celebrate the whole shmegegge. Still, one of my favorites is the time when Santa Claus comes over the horizon and he and his elves start running all over the place.”
Cover Story: George Booth’s “Holiday Spirit”
