Glen Baxter (1944 - )
Biography
Glen Baxter, nicknamed "Colonel Baxter," is a British cartoonist, noted for his surrealist, absurdist drawings. Born in Leeds in 1944, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images, and their corresponding captions, fuse art and language inspired by pulp fuction 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 feature cowboys, gangsters, explorers, and schoolchildren, who utter incongruous intellectual statements regarding art and philosophy. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Baxter [Nov 2005]
Biography
Glen Baxter was born in Leeds in 1944. He is known for his idiosyncratic, surreal sense of humor that fuses the absurd with a dry wit. In 1977, Baxter chose to focus his attentions on The Netherlands. In 1979, De Harmonie in Amsterdam published a collection of his drawings entitled Atlas. England, Finland, France and Australia followed in quick succession and in 1998 a major exhibition of his works was held at Modernism gallery in San Fransisco. Known as "the Colonel" to his baying legions of admirers, Glen Baxter is the author of more than twenty books including 'The Wonder Book of Sex', 'Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide' and 'Blizzards of Tweed'. --http://www.lambiek.net/baxter_g.htm [Sept 2004]Trundling Grunts - Glen Baxter
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About the Author
Glen Baxter's earlier works include Blizzards of Tweed, Atlas, The Impending Gleam, Jodhpurs in the Quantocks, The Billiard Table Murders, Returns to Normal, and Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide.
Colonel Baxter returns with a rip-roaring new collection of cartoons in which he boldly tackles the great issues of the day.--Book Description
Fans of Glen Baxter and his singular, comical world can breathe easy: he's back. For the uninitiated: get ready. Trundling Grunts is that rare book that provides answers to all of life's unasked questions, providing foolproof ways to: Order a Continental breakfast. Approach an offending bagel. Trouble-shoot an express hair grooming service. Smuggle tofu. Freshen up a salad bowl. Make a career switch to accountancy. Stumble into a work of total abstraction. The modern world can be a tough place. As always, Glen Baxter helps you through it.
Bibliography
Title Year Publisher Atlas 1979 De Harmonie, Amsterdam The Impending Gleam 1981 Jonathan Cape, London His Life: The Years of Struggle 1983 Thames and Hudson, London Atlas, Le dernier terrain vague 1983 Editions Hoëbeke, Paris L'heure du thé 1990 Editions Hoëbeke, Paris Welcome to the Weird World of Glen Baxter 1989 Harper & Row, New York Ma vie: le jeunes années 1990 Editions Hoëbeke, Paris The Billiard Table Murders 1990 Bloomsbury, London Retour 'a la normale 1992 Editions Hoëbeke, Paris Glen Baxter Returns to Normal 1992 Bloomsbury, London The Collected Blurtings of Baxter 1994 Little, Brown and Company, London The Further Blurtings of Baxter 1994 Little, Brown and Company, London The Wonder Book of Sex 1995 Little, Brown and Company, London Wundersame Welt der Erotik 1996 Goldmann Verlag, Munich Le livre de l'amour 1997 Editions Hoëbeke, Paris Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide 1997 Bloomsbury, London Blizzards of Tweed 1999 Bloomsbury, London Podium 1999 Les Éditions les 4 Mers, Paris. (Tel/Fax ++01 47 00 55 43) Meurtres a la Table de Billard 2000 Editions Hoëbeke , Paris Trundling Grunts 2002 Bloomsbury, London The Unhinged World of Glen Baxter 2002 Pomegranate, USA
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