- For the Canadian television journalist and photographer, see Glen Baxter (journalist).
A typical Baxter cartoon
Glen Baxter, nicknamed "Colonel Baxter," is an English 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 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 feature cowboys, gangsters, explorers, and schoolchildren, who utter incongruous intellectual statements regarding art and philosophy.
Books
- The Impending Gleam (1981)
- His Life: The Years of Struggle (1983)
- 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)
