Thursday, February 19, 2004  
Chester Brown's Louis Riel reviewed in the Minneapolis City Pages + upcoming radio interview

:: Posted by max @ 2/19/2004 12:56:00 PM
ON a Mission from God : The man who made Manitoba--and died for it, too



"Chester Brown is one of the comic book's great formalists"



Grammar non-withstanding, high praise indeed from this US paper for our cartooning poet laureate of late. A nice bit for example...



"Brown remains, above all, a storyteller. Even when his pacing is perverse, it's never dull. He has made substantial elisions and revisions to the facts for the sake of the story's flow. (Brown annotates every deliberate inaccuracy in the book's notes.) His line work is expressive and spare, almost ecstatically austere: He can suggest a coat or a tree--the light on an object and the weight of it--with a few judicious, scraggly lines. And he's a master of solid white and black spaces. The courtroom where Riel's sanity is debated is jet-black except for lawyers, witnesses, and their furniture. The battlegrounds that led the rebel to this gloomy chamber are bleak expanses of snow." >>>



Not to shabby.



Chester Brown on Northeast Public Radio on 2/23



David Doane interviews Chester Brown about LOUIS RIEL for The Roundtable, WAMC's three-hour daily talk show focusing on politics, art and culture. The interview will air Monday, February 23rd at about 10:35 AM, you'll be able to listen via streaming audio online at www.wamc.org



D&Q links: Chester Brown; Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography (HC)
    
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