The Impending Gleam

by Glen Baxter

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039452473X
• ISBN13: 9780394524733
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

hilarious

I love this book! Glen Baxter has a wonderfully strange sense of humor. This book is full of drawings, sometimes strange and sometimes not, with strange captions. There's an entire chapter of Old West drawings, and Baxter seems to enjoy humor involving wimples. "Fruits of the World in Danger" is very amusing, and I really enjoyed the occasional "Great Failures of Our Time". It's sometimes hard to figure out the humor in a particular caption, but there were more times when a page would make me laugh.

Buy this - now!

Glen Baxter is a true breath of fresh air; his single-frame cartoons are always original and often so funny they can reduce readers to tears. The style is old-school, and wouldn't be out of place in a Boy's Own Annual circa 1930, with cowboys, swashbucklers, vintage private schoolchildren and more all represented. The real humour comes from the captions, which put phrases like "We don't hold with post-structuralist analysis around here" in the mouths of cowboys and imbue schoolboys with creepy, sinister motives.This collection is all a fan of cartooning or indeed of humour could ask for. There's really nothing more to be said.