Full name: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

Author: Chester Brown Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Graphic Novels, History, Non Fiction, Biographies Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781894937894 1894937899

"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-century Métis 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. Similar books: The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge Andre the Giant by Box Brown The Big Book of Weirdos by Carl A. Posey Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert The Dionne Years by Pierre Berton Brazen by Penelope Bagieu Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs The Quitter by Harvey Pekar It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth The Big Book of the Weird Wild West by John Whalen California Dreamin' by Penelope Bagieu The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown Paying for It by Chester Brown I Never Liked You by Chester Brown Lucy Maud Montgomery by Mary Henley Rubio Madness, Betrayal and the Lash by Stephen R. Bown Epic Wanderer by D'Arcy Jenish