Glen Baxter (cartoonist)

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

Life and work

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

Baxter's cartoons are usually from an image with an associated caption their absurd joke is constructed by the combination of text and image. By his own admission Dadaist and Surrealist such as Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton and René Magritte have influenced him. Baxter's humor has been compared to that of Monty Python and the Goon Show and the book The Billiard Table Murders wrote the mirror; a signed in the style of old Kriminaljounale But compendium of wit. Recurring motifs are bold researchers (often at the moment of failure ), cowboys and school children.

Baxter's work also appeared in several British magazines as well as in New York and in Variety.

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