"They look like pointy-eared dwarf alligators on short, claw-footed stilts, and they're seldom the point or the executor of the gag, but for cartoon lovers, [George] Booth's dogs are as definitive of their cartoon species as B. Kliban's ebullient, meatloafish cats are of theirs (there are cats in Booth's stuff, too, but they're definitely second bananas). Their memorability has a lot to do with their utter doggyness.... Usually, they just sit, lie, bark, scratch, and react to what a cartoon's unkempt, lunatic humans do and say. But, graced with an ineffably radiant tinge of the seediness that suffuses every Booth cartoon, they somehow subtly occupy a—if not the—spot on which the gazing eye must eventually rest. And they're always funny, often enough so to turn a chuckle into a chortle, maybe even a guffaw, or, better yet, a bark."—Booklist