- Glen Baxter
Glen Baxter, nicknamed "Colonel Baxter," is an English
cartoonist , noted for hissurrealist ,absurdist drawings. Born inLeeds in 1944, Baxter was trained at theLeeds College of Art . His images, and their corresponding captions, fuse art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. Baxter's art has been collected in numerous books, and his work has appeared in "The New Yorker ", "Vanity Fair", and "The Independent on Sunday ". His simple line-drawings often featurecowboy s,gangster s,explorer s, andschoolchildren , who utter incongruous intellectual statements regardingart andphilosophy .Books
*"The Impending Gleam" (1981)
*"His Life: The Years of Struggle" (1983) (translated as "Zijn leven, de jaren van strijd", 1986)
*"Atlas, Le dernier terrain vague " (1983)
*"Jodpurs in the Quantocks (1986)
*"L'heure du thé" (1990)
*"Welcome to the Weird World of Glen Baxter" (1989)
*"Ma vie: le jeunes années" (1990)
*"The Billiard Table Murders" (1990)
*"Glen Baxter Returns to Normal" (1992) (translated as "Retour à la normale", 1992)
*"The Collected Blurtings of Baxter" (1994)
*"The Further Blurtings of Baxter" (1994)
*"The Wonder Book of Sex" (1995) (translated as "Wundersame Welt der Erotik", 1996, and "Le livre de l'amour", 1997).
*"Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide" (1997)
*"Blizzards of Tweed" (1999)
*"Meurtres a la Table de Billard" (2000)
*"Trundling Grunts" (2002)
*"The Unhinged World of Glen Baxter" (2002)
*"Loomings Over the Suet" (2004)External links
* [http://www.glenbaxter.com/ The World of Glen Baxter]
* [http://www.flowerseast.com/FE/Artists_Originals.asp?Artist=BAXTEG Glen Baxter Gallery Website]
* [http://www.flowerseast.com/Originals_Exhibitions.asp?Exhibition=05FNYBAXT&OE=1 Glen Baxter Agog in Fustian]
* [http://www.flowerseast.com/Originals_Exhibitions.asp?Exhibition=04FCBAXTG&OE=1 Glen Baxter London]
* [http://www.comichouse.nl/en/illustration/2d/baxter/ Comic House portfolio of Glen Baxter]
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1371749,00.html "King of the Surreal," The Observer, December 12, 2004]
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