Atlas [Hardcover]

Glen Baxter (Author)

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Glen Baxter, nicknamed Colonel Baxter, is an English cartoonist, noted for his surrealist, absurdist drawings. Born in Leeds in 1944, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images, and their corresponding captions, fuse art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. Baxter's art has been collected in numerous books, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Independent on Sunday. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Knopf; First Edition. states edition (March 12, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394529944
• ISBN-13: 978-0394529943
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,262,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, November 18, 1999

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This review is from: Atlas (Hardcover)

Atlas was the first Baxter tome I managed to get hold of after seeing some postcards ( "These pants are welded steel" announced the stranger - etc. ) and it's rewards are great.

Highlights include a contraption for coating shoelaces in a thin layer of unsalted butter, and cowboy and indian existential philosophy.

I thoroughly recommend The Billiard Table Murders (with its wonderful clock-maker working uniquely in the medium of sponge) and if possible getting to see some of these cartoons in their huge original form.

"Time to lubricate the cinders" mumbled the reviewer...