Angloman: Money, Ethnics, Superheroes

by Mark Shainblum, Gabriel Morrissette (Illustrator)

Angloman--in reality, Eaton M. McGill, insurance underwriter for Sun Life--is your typical, everyday superhero, bigger than life, champion of bilingualism and tolerance, and dumber than a post. Angloman's secret base of operations is the Fortress of Two Solitudes, where he is joined by kid sidekick West-Island Lad and partner Poutinette, the cholesterol-powered superheroine who takes on evil, infamy, and health food.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Mark Shainblum is a science fiction, fantasy and graphic novel writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines like On Spec, Would That It Were, Thousand Faces and the anthologies Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic(Vehicle Press, 2003)and Playing Solitaire and Other Stories (Cyber Age 2001). With John Dupuis, he was co-editor of the Aurora Award-winning anthology Arrowdeams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, published in 1998. In comics he’s best known as the writer and co-creator of Angloman, a parody series published in two bestselling books, and later as a weekly comic strip in the Montreal Gazette. Mark also wrote and co-created the independent comic book series Northguard, and the mystery series The Haunting of MacGrath.

Mark is a past-president of SF Canada, Canada’s national association of science fiction authors. He lives in Montreal with his wife Andrea and daughter Maya.

Reviews

[Will · Rating 5 out of 5]

You may miss some of the ... hell, MANY of the references to Canadian politics, but who cares?

"You are in my power! You will say stupid and offensive thing..."
"I will say stupid and offensive things..."
"Things no sane politician would say in public!"

"If Canada is divisible, Quebec is divisible! If Quebec is divisible, Montreal is divisible! If Montreal is divisible, your living room is divisiable!"