{"id":9927,"date":"2016-10-10T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:09:51","slug":"episode-189-glen-baxter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-189-glen-baxter","title":{"rendered":"Episode 189 – Glen Baxter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show #189:
\nGlen Baxter<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The world is a mad place, and New York was a good place to be mad in.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Artist Glen Baxter<\/a> joins the show for a conversation about his new collection, Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings<\/a>\"\" (New York Review Comics). We get into the roots of his absurdism, his first visit to New York City in the ’70s and how it changed his life, where his cowboy-thing started, why he doesn’t define himself as either an artist or a cartoonist (but maybe as a visual poet?), the challenge of doing long-form narrative when so much of his work is single-panel, our mutual dislike of the contemporary art scene, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a>\u00a0And go buy Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“All the cultural vibrancy of great cities has been made less possible by the fact that people can’t afford to live there anymore. The energy is dissipated.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We also get into how absurdism insulates him from this modern world, the impact of Brexit on British culture, why his humor was always a tough sell in the UK, the paradox of political cartoonists’ work being bought by the politicians they ridicule, the joy of ukulele, the experience of having his work knocked off by other artists, the time he got a Cartier commission, and more.\u00a0Now go listen to the show!<\/a><\/p>\n

“European culture is important to me. Having that snatched away by Brexit, well, that’s something no one discussed in any of the debates.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n