Louis Riel was a Metis—half Indian, half French, or a half-breed as the British Canadians liked to call his people. In the latter half of the 19th Century, he fought for his people to be seen as equal ...

Chester Brown doesn’t need your love. His shifts in tone and subject have bucked many a reader. Part of the second generation of “underground” comix artists of the mid 1980s, Brown has gone from ...

Cartoonists Chester Brown and Joe Sacco began their non-fiction comics careers with idiosyncratic autobiography–Brown most notably with the austere adolescent vignettes The Playboy and I Never Liked ...

Brown's exploration of the life of a fictional 19th-century Canadian revolutionary Riel is a strong contender for the best graphic novel ever. Over five years in the making, Brown's work is completely ...

"This work was originally serialized, in a slightly different version, in the 10-issue comic book series Louis Riel, published by Drawn & Quarterly between 1999 and 2003"--T.p. verso.