Chester Brown

Author and artist Chester Brown will be signing copies of the recently released paperback edition of "Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography" at Pennywise Books on October 12 between 3:00 and 5:00 PM. He will be speaking about his work later that evening at the AGSM (Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba) beginning at 7:00 PM.

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 cooly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

Copies of Louis Riel as well as some of his earlier works will be available at the store for fans to have autographed.

For more information about Chester Brown and his work, please visit the publisher's website: Drawn & Quarterly.