Superman’s history with phone booths, explained The image of Clark Kent changing clothes in a phone booth originated with 1941’s The Mechanical Monsters, a cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios.

George Booth, who created a cartoon world of boisterous, wacky characters in the pages of the New Yorker, drawing cross-eyed dogs, grumpy cats and neurotic but good-natured humans while helping ...

In the best cartoons, the words and the drawings are conjoined. Booth’s drawings, even without captions, are hilarious. Men and women, cats and dogs, electrical outlets and bathtubs: each detail ...