Glen Baxter, whose cartoons were seen in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and other publications, died on March 29, 2026. The cause was carcinomatosis. He was 82.
"A minor surrealist and major seller of greetings cards, the artist Glen Baxter believed that 'drawing is a form of electricity connecting one thing to another, sometimes, and hopefully, in surprising ways.' As such, he long had a strange preoccupation with tweed, one of the many artefacts redolent of Empire that he was to turn to account.
"With his work appearing in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and the Independent on Sunday, he found a worldwide market from the Eighties onwards for such captioned drawings as two tweedy men tied to posts in front of another: 'There, as usual, was Edelson, delivering his post-structuralist analysis of the modern novel to the privileged few.'
"Elsewhere, on a tennis lawn, the caption apprises the viewer of a fraught situation, for 'Gladys had not realised that Virginia was unable to accept defeat gracefully.' Across the net is a figure now covered in a black mask and sporting an axe. 'Baxter’s drawings are a delicious stew of pulp adventure novels, highbrow high jinks, 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,' said The New York Review of Books."
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