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Angloman 2: Money, Ethnics, Superheroes [Paperback]

Mark Shainblum (Author), Gabriel Morrissette (Illustrator)


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Book Description

December 1, 1996
He’s Québec’s best-known ethnic minority superhero. He spent 22 weeks on the Montreal Gazette bestseller list and received rave reviews from everybody from La Presse to The Toronto Star to Geist. He’s Angloman, and he’s back for another parody-rich romp through the surrealistic politics of La Belle Province and the country as a whole!

Barrel-chested champion of bilingualism and tolerance, always well-meaning but thick as a brick, Angloman is joined by his partners in parody Poutinette and West Island Lad, and a crew of political adventurers like Power Chin, Canada!man and Le Capitaine Souche.

In Angloman 2 there’s a whole new cast of post-referendum personalities, including the all-powerful, all-knowing Ethnoman, who will, of course, stop at nothing to destroy the French fact in Québec! Can Capitaine Souche stop this mad genius and his super-powerful ethnic ballot box of doom, or will he finally face the one foe he simply cannot defeat? Can Matzohgirl, teenage super-powered defender of Côte Saint Luc, escape the insatiable clutches of La régie? Even tougher, can West Island Lad get her to go out with him? What will become of Blocman now that he’s no longer bloced? Will Partition Man divide Québec?

And where have all the anglos gone? Are they really leaving Québec of their own free will, or is something else afoot? Will Angloman, Poutinette and West Island Lad survive their encounter with the malevolent Torontorg, and—more important—will Toronto survive its encounter with them?


Editorial Reviews

Review

"Angloman is a successful merge of comic strip fantasy with the cutting quality of political cartooning." -- Aislin, Terry Mosher

"Faster than a police car speeding through a red light! More powerful than the language police! Able to leap empty downtown office buildings in a single bound! Look up in the sky! It's a best-seller! It's a sequel! It's Angloman 2!...Politicians and their handiwork are just part of the Angloman 2 canvas. Shainblum and Morrissette also set their sights on bumbling bureaucracy, phony fortune-tellers, geeky comic-book conventions and other pop-culture scenery." -- The Montreal Gazette

Look up in the sky! It’s a best-seller! It’s a sequel! It’s Angloman 2! -- The Montreal Gazette

From the Back Cover

"Knocks the stuffing out of Canadian blowhards, egotists and malcontents of every political stripe...Angloman's humour has an engagingly playful edge, complemented by artwork that's dynamic, clearly drawn and accessible..." (The Toronto Star)

"Angloman is the ideal antidote for anybody who, on either side of the issue, has had it up to here with the constitutional crisis..." (La Presse)


Product Details

  • Paperback: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Signature Editions (December 1, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0921833504
  • ISBN-13: 978-0921833505
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 6 x 0.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,114,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Shainblum is a Montreal-based science fiction, fantasy and comic book writer. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines like On Spec, Would That It Were, Thousand Faces and the anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic. In 1997 Mark and John Dupuis co-edited the Aurora Award-winning alternate history book Arrowdeams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, published by Signature Editions.

In comics Mark wrote adaptations of Michael Moorcock's classic Corum novels for First Comics in collaboration with Ken Hooper and Jill Thompson, and also wrote and co-created the critically acclaimed independent superhero series Northguard with Gabriel Morrissette. In a slightly different comics domain, Mark is well-known in Canada as the co-creator of Angloman, a political parody series first published by Signature Editions in two bestselling books. Angloman later appeared as a weekly comic strip in the Montreal Gazette.

Mark has also worked as a literary columnist, a technology journalist and a media relations officer for a major Canadian university.

In the real world, Mark is husband to Andrea, and daddy to Maya.

Mark's website: www.northguard.com/mbs

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