Angloman: Making the World Safe for Apostrophes

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.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

64 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

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

[Dominick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, this is slight but entertaining. Shainblum and Morrissette satirize Quebes via the tropes of superheroes to often amusing effect. Especially enjoyable are the riffs on Celine Dion (the equation of her music to junk food isn't subtle, but it is funny) and Jacques Parizeau's secret origin story, which plays hilariously on Frank Miller's version of Batman, but makes the childhood trauma a confrontation with an English Eaton's clerk, rather than murder. Entertaining, though I imagine anyone who isn't both Canadian and fairly well-versed in politics will not be able to appreciate it fully.

[Adam Hodgins · Rating 3 out of 5]

maybe a little dated but still funny, you might have to be a maudit anglais to get it though.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Les maudits anglais de blaukes!

heh, loved this and Mlle Poutine was an all-time favorite :-)