Glen Baxter

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Glen Baxter (born March 4, 1944 in Leeds ) is an English cartoonist and author.

life and work

Glen Baxter came from a working-class family and attended Leeds College of Art. In London he worked as a teacher, began to draw and published his first poems. His first book with collected cartoons was published in 1977 under the title Atlas in the Netherlands, two years later in England. In addition to the cartoons, he created visual novels such as The Billiard Table Murders, which was also published in German .

Baxter's cartoons usually consist of an image with an accompanying caption, the absurd joke of which is only created through the combination of text and image. He says he was influenced by Dadaists and Surrealists such as Max Ernst , Giorgio de Chirico , André Breton and René Magritte . Baxter's humor has been compared to that of the Monty Pythons and the Goon Show , and Der Spiegel wrote about the book The Billiard Table Murders : a compendium of madness drawn in the style of old crime journals. Recurring motifs are daring researchers (often at the moment of failure), cowboys and school children.

Baxter's work has also appeared in a number of British magazines, as well as the New Yorker and Variety .

bibliography

  • 1979: Atlas ( Atlas 1988, two thousand and one)
  • 1981: The Impending Gleam
  • 1983: His Life: The Years of Struggle
  • 1986: Jodpurs in the Quantocks
  • 1989: Welcome to the Weird World of Glen Baxter
  • 1990: L'heure du thé
  • 1990: Ma vie: le jeunes années
  • 1990: The Billiard Table Murders ( Die Billardtischmorde 1991, Insel, ISBN 3-458-16211-9 )
  • 1992: Glen Baxter Returns to Normal
  • 1994: The Collected Blurtings of Baxter
  • 1994: The Further Blurtings of Baxter
  • 1995: The Wonder Book of Sex (1995) ( Glen Baxter's wondrous world of eroticism 1996, Goldmann, ISBN 3-442-30652-3 ).
  • 1997: Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide
  • 1999: Blizzards of Tweed
  • 2002: Trundling Grunts
  • 2002: The Unhinged World of Glen Baxter
  • 2004: Loomings Over the Suet
  • 2012: Colonel Baxter's Dutch Safari

proof

  1. ↑ a b c d Glen Baxter at Lambiek.net
  2. ↑ a b Glen Baxter - His life, his work in the broadcast metropolis ( Memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ King of the surreal Harriet Lane in: The Observer December 12, 2004
  4. ^ Henry Glass: in SPIEGEL SPECIAL 3/1991

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personal data
SURNAME Baxter, Glen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds