Angloman 2: Money, Ethnics, Superheroes [Paperback]

He's Qubec'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 we also debut a whole new cast of post-referendum personalities, like the all-powerful, all-knowing Ethnoman, who will, of course, stop at nothing to destroy the French fact in Qubec! 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 C(tm)te Saint Luc, escape the insatiable clutches of La rgie? 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 Qubec?

And where have all the anglos gone? Are they really leaving Qubec 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?

"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)

Mark Shainblum, a lifelong native of Montreal, leads a secret double life as both mainstream journalist and comic book writer. In the mid-eighties, Shainblum founded Matrix Graphics, an independent Canadian comic book publisher. He was also the co-creator of Northguard, a post-modern superhero series acclaimed by the Canadian Museum of Caricature as "...the most sophisticated depiction ever of a Canadian national superhero." A former literary columnist for Hour, the Montreal arts and culture weekly, Shainblum currently freelances for such publications as The Montreal Gazette and Quill & Quire, as well as New York's Broadway Comics.

Gabriel Morrissette is a prolific comic book artist who began his career in 1984 collaborating with Shainblum on Northguard. In recent years Morrissette has worked on such classic mainstream comics as Doc Savage and Spiderman 2099, as well as many alternative and independent comics. Morrissette has also worked extensively in French for such Qubecois humour magazines as Croc and Safarir, for whom he illustrates the adventures of humorous Qubecois superhero Sveudireman. His illustration of Northguard's ally Fleur de Lys was recently featured in a Canadian superhero stamp series issued by Canada Post.