Louis Riel by Chester Brown7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1983, a few years after he moved to Toronto, Brown began a series of mini-comics - short, under-sized, black-and-white comic books - which he called Yummy Fur, and which he published and distributed himself. After graduating high school, Brown travelled to the offices of Marvel and DC Comics in New York, but finding no work, returned to Montr éal to study commercial art at Dawson College. During his youth, Brown also had his first comics published in the local paper - inspired by Doug Wright’s comics, the strip focused on Brown’s own family - and became an avid reader of superhero and horror comics. ![]() ![]() I Never Liked You (1994), in particular, documents the quotidian circumstances of his middle-class upbringing - attending church and high school, developing diffident crushes, watching television - as well as his mother’s gradually deteriorating health. Early Lifeīrown has made his adolescence in Châteauguay, an anglophone suburb of Montréal, the subject of several comics. The author of unflinching autobiographical comics, as well as a “comic-strip biography” of Métis leader Louis Riel, Chester Brown is one of the world’s premier cartoonists. Chester Brown, cartoonist (born in Montr éal, QC). ![]()
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