Almost Completely Baxter
New and Selected Blurtings
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
Over four decades and a multitude of books, “Colonel” Glen Baxter has built a world and a language all his own—slightly familiar, decidedly abnormal, irresistibly funny. Have you felt the terror of a failed Szechuan dinner? Have you seen what happens at precisely 6:15? Do you know where the beards are stored? Either way, this is the book for you.
Baxter’s drawings are a delicious stew of pulp adventure novels, highbrow hjinks, and outright absurdity: lonesome cowboys confront the latest in modern art, brave men tremble before moussaka, schoolgirls hoard hashish, and the world’s fruits are in constant peril. Wimples abound.
This new selection of Baxter’s work brings together highlights from the full sweep of his long career, and is sure to enchant both confirmed Baxterians and those iin dire need of an introduction.
This NYRC edition is a hardcover with printed endpapers, debossed cover design, and extra-thick paper.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three men, all dressed in identical suits and wearing identical hairstyles, stand behind a table, gesturing to one another deferentially. Caption: "The twins introduced the imposter." Such are the absurdist sensibilities of veteran English humorist Baxter (Trundling Grunts, Loomings over the Suet). This collection of single-panel cartoons (most in black and white, though some sections are in color) runs the gamut of his career, interrupted infrequently by flash fiction in the genre of literary nonsense. Baxter's comedy is frequently found in the juxtaposition of an innocuous bit of text with a seemingly unrelated image; however, some moments of clarity can easily be read as social commentary. Baxter's work resembles a series of classical plates for illustrated fiction, filtered through a sieve of Charles Addams, Gary Larson, and Monty Python (the last of which is especially felt in the running series "Fruits of the World in Peril"). This collection is a delightful compilation of fine modern absurdist humor.
