Showing Louis Riel : a comic-strip biography by Chester Brown

Paperback. Pub Date :2006-08-22 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to-Time. 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 Mtis leader. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel. who some regard a martyr who died in the name of freedom. while others consider him a treacherous murderer.