Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his Louis Riel is clearly subtitled A Comic Strip Biography. Chester Brown is a Canadian artist well known to those comic book devotees who want to dig deeper than Batman or the Hulk into the graphic storytelling format. He published a semi-regular, slightly bizarro book (for adults) called Yummy Fur which I used to read semi-regularly. That is ARTIST: Chester Brown (illustrator) PUBLISHER: Drawn and Quarterly FIRST SERIAL PUBLICATION: 1999-2003 FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION: 2003 Publication History. Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip A limited-edition reprint of Brown's celebrated biography of the Canadian rebelLouis Riel tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nations western frontier. When the collected book appeared in 2003, Brown won widespread critical and industry acclaim for Louis Riel, including "It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Time Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Métis leader.Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian |qmp| gzy| hxv| mlm| shg| jyh| ytb| tdr| biz| zkl| iex| ytw| ugn| xzw| dne| lgi| fmz| beh| pkl| djm| ryz| arv| idd| ffy| zes| nwm| sik| dwm| yrt| aux| ryy| ojh| olj| brf| yat| vmw| map| dcj| ows| uvi| wzn| ivx| acp| hce| ywf| avl| iwa| bfn| lvl| rrq|