The globe-trotting misadventures of American Candide and his wingnut
tutor, Dr. Pangloss, his totally hot BBW Cunegonde plus sundry suicide
bombers, illuminati global warmers, insurance cults, sex-crazed illegal
aliens and even the Senate Sub-Committee on Homeland Furnishings
provides sufficient belly laughs to make exile, destitution, rape,
murder and torture into something that happens to other, mostly foreign
people, thank God. From the jungle slums of darkest Africa to the
lily-white McMansions of American suburbia, the human condition wreaks
havoc upon Candide and his friends as they search for an American Dream
being held against its will in an undisclosed location. College-boy
sissies will call it a Juvenalian satire upon America's penchant for
mindless optimism and casual racism but Candide says it's really 'rage
against the rage, Voltaire-dude!'
Mahendra Singh is an author, illustrator and editor who has worked on a
variety of SF, humor, children's and literary titles. His most recent
solo project was a graphic novel version of Lewis Carroll's Hunting of
the Snark. He also edits the Knight Letter, the journal of the Lewis
Carroll Society of North America. In his spare time he promotes atheism
by distributing blank pamphlets on the subway. He lives in Montreal.
