Sunday, October 26, 2003  
D+Q news

:: Posted by max @ 10/26/2003 08:54:00 PM
To announce his appearances in Montreal a few of the local dailies and weeklies ran profiles of Chester and his recent work

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Oct 26 in the Montreal Gazette:



Comic-strip maverick takes on Louis Riel,

Chester brown in town. Published biography in form of graphic novel



“Dubbed "a brilliant maverick" by Time magazine, Brown is the Canadian superhero of the not-so-new, but suddenly hot adult comic-strip phenomenon. An underground DIY graphic-art movement dating back to the late 1960s, the adult comic is enjoying a new round of mainstream attention, thanks to the hit movies Ghost World and American Splendor. The form won literary respect in 1986, when Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer as best novel.

Brown is in town today to deliver a slide-lecture at the Town of Mount Royal Library and to sign copies of the hardbound Riel bio at the Paragraphe bookstore downtown. Born in Montreal in 1960, Brown grew up a unilingual anglo in South Shore Châteauguay. He has lived in Toronto since 1979.”>>>



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Oct 23-29 ish of the Montreal Mirror

ArtsWeek: Keeping it Riel (also available on the D+Q site ici )



“Rarely is Canadian history delivered in a package as absorbing as Chester Brown's latest oeuvre. Originally released in 10 serialized editions, the local comic artist/historian's Louis Riel: A Comic Biography has been fused into a tight unit by also-local publisher Drawn and Quarterly.” >>>



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Oct 18

Chester made the National press in the Globe & Mail, taking the cover story for the Book Review section.



The venerable Canadian national newspaper ‘Lavished’ the book with non-stop accolades, reviewer Bernice Eisenstein states "if you love to read a gripping story, if you are awed by the talent of an artist, then look no further: Chester Brown’s LOUIS RIEL is comix history in the making, and with it, history never looked so good."



"Riel’s story of injustice and intrigue and the machinations of an expanding nation are stylishly written, but Brown’s well-paced schematic unfolding knows when to pull back the word and release the artistic arsenal of cinematic techniques, frame by frame. Thus, battle scenes are pure image, capturing the close-up tensions and movement of action, and Riel’s isolation is revealed in silence. Word and pen unite together, near the end, when Riel is tried for treason."



Along with featuring LOUIS RIEL on the cover of the Book Review and the front page of the newspaper, the GLOBE & MAIL ran two full pages of art alongside the review. >>>



Check here to find out Chester’s up coming tour dates



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Oct 22

Some guy named Joe Sacco was interviewed by the CBC on The Arts Today aperantly as well… ;) Audio link pending.



    
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