Glen Baxter: "The Impending Gleam" (mit supplement German translation by Harry Rowohlt)

Original edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1982. Unpaginated, about 100 p.
With supplement to the original edition: Der unheilschwangere Hoffnungsschimmer. German translation by Harry Rowohlt. 6 pages. Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt a.M.

Baxter was born in Leeds and educated at Leeds College of Art. His first solo exhibition took place at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery in New York. Baxter's artwork has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Independent on Sunday. His paintings and accompanying captions are inspired in art and language by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. His simple line drawings often show cowboys, gangsters, explorers and schoolchildren making incongruent intellectual statements about art and philosophy. One of his most famous satirical works, The Impending Gleam, was first published in 1981.