Wednesday, January 17, 2007  
Manitoba Metis plan Riel comic

:: Posted by Dave Howard @ 1/17/2007 04:45:00 AM
This piece of news just in from Regina's Leader-Post:
Manitoba Metis plan Riel comic

Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, January 16, 2007

A Metis organization plans to present the controversial history of Louis Riel in a colour comic that is every bit as colourful as Riel's personality.

The 50-page, hard-cover graphic novel is to be published in both official languages. The proposal includes an interactive DVD, a teacher's guide and student workbook, and an interactive, animated Web site.
There's no mention of Chester Brown's comic-stip biography Louis Riel. It is to be a 50 page 'graphic novel' - though novella may be more appropriate - but I suspect it will be chiefly a teaching aid. Here's the link to the article.

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Blogger Dwight Williams, Storyteller said...

This, I think, can only be a good thing.

How many prose biographies of Riel have been published over the last century and change since his death? There ought to be at least as many on the comics/graphic novel(la) side of the aisle as well, with however competing visions of that life as can hold up to readers' scrutiny.

As someone who already owns the hardcover edition of Chester Brown's work, I'll be looking forward to this one as well if it's made available to the retail trade.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:58:00 AM EST  
Blogger Bryan said...

Chester noted one or two other comic adaptations of the Riel story in the letters pages of the serialized version. Maybe in the GN as well?

Friday, January 19, 2007 4:18:00 AM EST  

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