 Angloman:
Making the World Safe for Apostrophes
AUTHOR: Mark Shainblum
ISBN: 092183344X
Angloman—in reality Eaton M. McGill, insurance underwriter for SunLife—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. He is joined in his adventures by kid sidekick West-Island Lad and partner Poutinette, the cholesterol-powered superheroine who takes on evil, infamy, and health food.
"Angloman is a successful merge of comic strip fantasy with the cutting quality of political cartooning. But, just as importantly, this book is evidence of our differences—yes—but differences that have evolved into a culture unto itself, making us all quite...inseparable."—Aislin
REVIEWS: "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
"If the mere mention
of the word constitutional makes you see red, then this Canadian comic
book—a fusion of superhero adventure and political satire—is
the perfect antidote."
"Angloman is a hybrid of form and content. The drawings by Gabriel Morrissette are bold and broad archetypally fiendish characters in action-packed scenes, exhibiting the violent wham of comics. The text by Mark Shainblum begins with the familiar situations of comic-book types, but the punch lines are closer to a Freudian dissection of familiar headlines. Asa look at who we are collectively under the frosty blanket of referendum fallout, Angloman seems oh-so-accurate." —The Montreal Gazette
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