Life and career Early life Ĭhester William David Brown was born on at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has received grants from the Canada Council to complete Louis Riel and Paying for It. Following Louis Riel Brown ceased serializing his work to publish graphic novels directly. Since 1991, Brown has associated himself with Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The content tended towards controversial themes: a distributor and a printer dropped it in the late 1980s, and it has been held up at the Canada–United States border. Since the late 1990s Brown has had a penchant for providing detailed annotations for his work and extensively altering and reformatting older works.īrown at first self-published his work as a minicomic called Yummy Fur beginning in 1983 Toronto publisher Vortex Comics began publishing the series as a comic book in 1986. Rather than the traditional method of drawing complete pages, Brown draws individual panels without regard for page composition and assembles them into pages after completion. His later works employ a sparse drawing style and flat dialogue. īrown draws from a range of influences, including monster and superhero comic books, underground comix, and comic strips such as Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie.
Paying for It (2011) drew controversy as a polemic in support of decriminalizing prostitution, a theme he explored further with Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus (2016), a book of adaptations of stories from the Bible that Brown believes promote pro-prostitution attitudes among early Christians. Surprise mainstream success in the 2000s came with Louis Riel (2003), a historical-biographical graphic novel about rebel Métis leader Louis Riel. Two graphic novels came from this period: The Playboy (1992) and I Never Liked You (1994).
After bringing Ed to an abrupt end, he delved into confessional autobiographical comics in the early 1990s and was strongly associated with fellow Toronto-based cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt, and the contemporary autobiographical comics trend. He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological Ed the Happy Clown serial. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.Chester William David Brown (born ) is a Canadian cartoonist.īrown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods.
Brown won 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 Metis leader's life. 2 minutes ago - ▶️▶️ COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD ▶️▶️Ĭhester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel.
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