Jodhpurs in the Quantocks

by Glen Baxter

Genres: Cartoon

94 pages, Hardcover

First published November 13, 1986

About the author

Glen Baxter (born 4 March 1944), nicknamed Colonel Baxter, is an English cartoonist, noted for his absurdist drawings and an overall effect often resembling literary nonsense.
Born in Leeds, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images and their corresponding captions employ art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. His simple line-drawings often feature cowboys, gangsters, explorers and schoolchildren, who utter incongruous intellectual statements regarding art and philosophy.
Baxter's artwork has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on Sunday.

Reviews

[Kevin Hogan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is important always to remember that "absurd" does not necessarily mean "funny."

If you have ever read a Glen Baxter cartoon and wanted to know what a 1-3 page story written in that style would look like, this is the book for you.

It was a little too disconnected in its absurdity for me. I prefer cartoon absurdity to narrative absurdity, it turns out.