Atlas

by Glen Baxter

A new collection of cartoons featuring more of Baxter's Amazing People, more Great Failures of History, and more Great Culinary Disasters of Our Time

Genres: Comics, Humor, Cartoon, 20th Century

107 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1979

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

[BC Sterrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird cartoons, in the realm of humor like the works of Piarro. Drawn to represent an old pulp style, in the era of artists like Fletcher Hanks. It's an oddity, but I still think it could've been better, and the humor pushed even farther.

[Printable Tire]

Prototype to a kind of humor perfected much later.