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Chester Brown's LOUIS RIEL: A Comic Strip Biography
By LJ Douresseau
Apr 17, 2004 - 11:05:00 AM

Drawn & Quarterly

DRAWN & QUARTERLY
CARTOONIST: Chester Brown
ISBN: 1-896597-63-7; Hardcover, $24.95

Many have already proclaimed how good it is, but LOUIS RIEL is indicative of Chester Brown's commix - the singular vision of a brilliant cartoonist. Louis Riel is a comic-strip biography and something new to comics. It is history, but it's also a documentary and historical fiction - a combination of true-life events filtered through a particular point of view. It also would not be a stretch to call this a myth, folklore, or a fairytale, and like them steeped in reality and history, because history is a story. Drawn & Quarterly, Brown's publisher, has collected the original ten-issue comic as LOUIS RIEL: A COMIC-STRIP BIOGRAPHY a handsome and inexpensive hardcover that is as praiseworthy as the work it contains. I suggest stopping by www.drawnandquarterly.com and buying a copy.
[DRECK, DULL, READABLE, VERY GOOD, EXCELLENT]

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