Louis Riel
by Chester Brown, Chester Brown
2003Riel, louis, 1844-1885RevolutionariesComics & graphic novels, generalCanada, fictionComic books, strips
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Open LibraryAbout this book
"This award-winning Canadian bestseller tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth century Métis leader, whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nation's western frontier"--P. [4] of cover.
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Riel, louis, 1844-1885RevolutionariesComics & graphic novels, generalCanada, fictionComic books, stripsMétis
First published 2003Characters & people
About the authors
Chester Brown
Brown was born in Montreal, Canada, on May 16, 1960, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay. At nineteen he moved to Toronto where, in 1983, he began self-publishing his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title Yummy Fur. Those pamphlets attracted the attention of comic book publishers and, in 1986, he began began writing and drawing for the Toronto based Vortex Comics. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well and Brown quit his day job and began working full time as a cartoonist. In the pages of Yummy Fur he serialized a bleaky humorous story called Ed the Happy Clown, which was published as a graphic novel in 1989. It went on to become a cult classic and established hi…
Chester Brown
1960
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