The Impending Gleam

by Glen Baxter

Surreal and absurd pictures of cowboys, soldiers, criminals, inventors, and students are accompanied by humorously incongruous captions

Genres: Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Art

111 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1981

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

[Raisu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disturbing and weird. Just the way I like 'em. This is the collection that Far Side wants to be.

[Virginprune · Rating 4 out of 5]

Because it was 5 stars when I first read it, 30 something years ago, and now I know it by heart it probably gets 3 stars.

[Rog Harrison · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have probably read this several times since I bought it in 1982 but wouldn't have made a note of when.

This is a slim volume of Baxter's quirky drawings each accompanied by an often surreal caption.

[Alan · Rating 5 out of 5]

laugh out loud funny.

[Timo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nyrjähtänyttä ja hauskaa. Just kuten pidän.