When I find an artist who does work featuring cowboys preluding their gun duels with dialogues about post-modern art, or tax accountants summoned to New Jersey to fight outbreaks of Surrealism, or uncles with strange fixations on slathering their left legs in mayonnaise while whistling the tune from Dr. Zhivago, I know I've found an artist I love.
Glen Baxter does strange illustrations: part Far Side, part early 20th century children's book woodcuts. John Ashberry from the New York Times described Baxter as in the "distinguished tradition of Lewis Carroll, Sax Rohmer, the Marquis de Sade, Raymond Roussel, Luther Burbank and the Comte de Lautreamont."
Ed Gorey — a fan — was more blunt: "Mr Baxter betrays all the ominous symptoms of genius." Check out Baxter's work at his official site: he's brilliant.
Glen Baxter [Artist's Site]
