Louis Riel - a Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown

Louis Riel - a Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown

"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.

Dr. Chester Brown is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's School of Law, a Barrister at Sydney's 7 Selborne Chambers, and a door tenant at Essex Court Chambers in London and Maxwell Chambers in Singapore. He formerly worked as an Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London and as a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance LLP in London's International Law and International Arbitration Group. He is the author of the ASIL Certificate of Merit-winning book A Common Law of International Adjudication (OUP, 2007). He went to Melbourne, Oxford, and Cambridge universities for his education.