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A review by woolfsfahan
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown
4.0
Good introduction to Riel's life during the Red River and Northwest Rebellions. Brown's style is simple yet endearing—something about the contrast between Riel's stern face and enormous hands—and strikingly emotive: the panels showing his incarceration at St. Jean de Dieu, though few, are thick with Riel's suffering.
While this is essentially historical fiction—Brown is very clear that he's playing loose with the record for the sake of narrative—it's enhanced by its endnotes (I'm not a big graphic novel reader, but that's not common for the genre, right?) and assiduous attention to small details, like the feds' scheme with the train.
While this is essentially historical fiction—Brown is very clear that he's playing loose with the record for the sake of narrative—it's enhanced by its endnotes (I'm not a big graphic novel reader, but that's not common for the genre, right?) and assiduous attention to small details, like the feds' scheme with the train.