Glen Baxter appeared last fall at the Brooklyn Book Festival to promote his new collection Almost Completely Baxter. He joined a panel with cartoonists Emily Flake and Ben Katchor moderated by Connie Sun. At the conclusion of the discussion at the Brooklyn Historical Society, he signed books outside. He is one of those signers who crosses out his printed name, replacing it with the signature.
Panel with Emily Flake, Ben Katchor, and Glen Baxter Brooklyn Book Festival, September 18, 2016
And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.
No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried.
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied.
That leaves only me to blame 'cause Mama tried.
—Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"
Emily Flake, Ben Katchor, and Glen Baxter promoted their new books at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 18, 2016
Last fall at the Brooklyn Book Festival, Emily Flake gave a presentation along with fellow cartoonists Glen Baxter and Ben Katchor entitled “Hey, Some Comics are Still Funny!”—or was it renamed “Short But Sweet” prior to the festival? Anyway, Connie Sun moderated. Afterwards, outside the venue, Ms. Flake signed and inscribed copies of her 2015 book Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting.
Emily Flake, Ben Katchor, Glen Baxter, and moderator Connie Sun The Brooklyn Book Festival, September 18, 2016
