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Celebrates the humorous and offbeat artwork of visual satirist Glen Baxter.
Provides a humorous portrait of the childhood, family, school life, and early career of the artist
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Over four decades and a multitude of books, “Colonel” Glen Baxter has built a world and a language all his own—slightly familiar, decidedly abnormal, irresistibly funny. Have you felt the terror of a failed Szechuan dinner? Have you seen what happens at precisely 6:15? Do you know where the beards are stored? Either way, this is the book for you. Baxter’s drawings are a delicious stew of pulp adventure novels, highbrow hjinks, and outright absurdity: lonesome cowboys confront the latest in modern art, brave men tremble before moussaka, schoolgirls hoard hashish, and the world’s fruits are in constant peril. Wimples abound. This new selection of Baxter’s work brings together highlights from the full sweep of his long career, and is sure to enchant both confirmed Baxterians and those iin dire need of an introduction. This NYRC edition is a hardcover with printed endpapers, debossed cover design, and extra-thick paper.
Surreal cartoons offer a humorous look at history, literary conventions, cooking, school, and adventurers
With all-new and completely original cartoons, Glen Baxter takes on the mysterious and bizarre subject of sex. The sybaritic pleasures of "webbing and oil-based adhesives, " "the Brussels swirl, " and "the German technique" are all explored in lurid detail. Baxter's inimitable wit and evocative drawings continue to fascinate and entertain. Illustrations.
Baxter's drawings and text are reminiscent of the 1930's adventure story illustrations and the "See Jane run" books, which is why you may feel like coloring them in when you look at them. But his irreverent and wildly funny work, with all its odd takes on life, will surprise you in how keenly it reflects the "real" world. And therein is the brilliance of Glen Baxter: his unhinged world turns out to be the one we all live in. Here is a welcome anthology of three of Baxter's out-of-print books: Atlas, The Impending Gleam, and Jodhpurs in the Quantocks.
A collection of surreal and humorous drawings by the author and illustrator of Jodpurs in the Quantocks and The Billiard Table Murders.