num_pages: 272
description: "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.
language: English
title: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
titlecomplete: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
genres: Historical, History, Comix, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Biography, Comics, Comic Book, Nonfiction, Canada
ratings_count: 5520
series: Louis Riel
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly