Louis Riel (comics)

Graphic novel

Louis Riel

Cover to the first edition of Louis Riel
(Drawn & Quarterly, 2003)

Creator| Chester Brown
Date| 2003
Page count| 271 pages
Publisher| Drawn & Quarterly
Original publication
Published in|

Louis Riel
(Drawn & Quarterly)

Issues| 1–10
Date of publication| 1999–2003

Louis Riel is a historical biography in comics by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, published as a book in 2003 after serialization in 1999–2003. The story deals with Métis rebel leader Louis Riel's antagonistic relationship with the newly established Canadian government. It begins shortly before the 1869 Red River Rebellion, and ends with Riel's 1885 hanging for high treason. The book explores Riel's possible schizophrenia—he believed God had named him Prophet of the New World, destined to lead the Métis people to freedom.

The work is noted for its emotional disengagement, its intentionally flat dialogue, and a minimalist drawing style inspired by that of Harold Gray's comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Unusual for comics of the time, it includes a full scholarly apparatus: a foreword, index, bibliography, and end notes. The lengthy, hand-lettered appendix provides insight into Brown's creative process and biases and highlights where he changed historical facts to create a more engaging story, such as incorporating a conspiracy theory not widely accepted by historians. Brown became interested in the issue of property rights while researching the book, which led to a public change in his politics from anarchism to libertarianism.

Although Brown intended it to be published only in book form, his publisher had him first serialize Louis Riel as a comic book, which lasted ten issues. The series was the first comic book to receive a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. It won a favourable critical reception and three Harvey Awards. The serialization sold poorly, but the book version was a surprise bestseller. Its success played a major part in gaining shelf space for serious graphic novels in mainstream North American bookstores.

## Overview

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Subtitled "A Comic-Strip Biography",[1] Louis Riel looks at Métis rebel leader Louis Riel and his leadership in the Red River and North-West rebellions. It does not attempt a complete retelling of Riel's life—it omits long periods and ignores many aspects of his personality. Instead the focus is on his "antagonistic relationship with the Canadian government"[2] from 1869 to 1885.[3] The story comprises 241 pages of the 271-page book, and is supplemented with a complete scholarly apparatus: a foreword, bibliography, index, map section and extensive end notes.[4] It has strong historiographical elements, detailing in the appendix the research done and choices made by the author in developing a story.[5]

Brown grew up in the Canadian province of Quebec, where the majority speaks French, and where Riel is often considered a martyr. However Brown, who grew up speaking only English,[6] said he was largely ignorant of Riel's story[7] until he read Maggie Siggins' 1994 biography Louis Riel: A Life of Revolution.[8] Many of Brown's favourite topics are entwined in Louis Riel: anti-authoritarianism, outsider religion, insanity, and accuracy and objectivity in nonfiction.[9] A central incident in the book is an eight-panel sequence in which Riel has a revelatory experience on a hilltop in Washington, D.C. He experiences visions and talks to God, who declares him Prophet of the New World and instructs him to lead his people to freedom. On the cover of the book, however, we see Riel standing alone in the wilderness, staring into the sky, leaving open the question of whether what he witnessed was real.[10]

## Background

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> "I read [Louis Riel: A Life of Revolution] and thought, 'That's a good dramatic story—it'd make a good strip.'"

Chester Brown, interview with Dave Sim (2003)[11]

In 1995, Brown published the anti-psychiatry comics essay "My Mom was a Schizophrenic", in which he examines society's role in mental illness, and questions the medical profession's accepted beliefs about it.[12] The six-page strip came with two pages of end notes gathered from his research. Brown enjoyed this project and thought he would like to take on another in which he could "cram a lot of research into a comic strip".[13] When he came across Siggins' biography of Riel, he had been working on the experimental Underwater series, a project on which he felt he had lost his way.[14] His father died in late 1997, and he decided he did not "want to waste [his] time with projects that weren't working out".[15] In 1998, he turned his attention to Riel,[13] putting the unpopular Underwater series on hold.[16]

While researching, Brown came across two books by political scientist Tom Flanagan: Louis "David" Riel: "Prophet of the New World" (1996) and Louis Riel and the Rebellion: 1885 Reconsidered (2000). Brown found "Prophet of the New World" particularly intriguing as it dealt with Riel's religious ideas while reevaluating his alleged diagnosis of mental illness,[13] two topics Brown had especial interest in, as he had previously made "eccentric" adaptations of the Gospel, and comics dealing with his mother's schizophrenia.[17] He also came across books by researcher Don McLean and historian Douglas N. Sprague that advanced the conspiracy theory that the 1885 North-West Rebellion was deliberately provoked by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to gain support for the building of the transcontinental railway.[18]

Brown had gained a reputation for improvised storytelling by the time he began work on Louis Riel. With Underwater, he had intended to write a script, but in the end chose to improvise. He found the results unsatisfactory, and decided to write a full script beforehand for his next project. The script for Louis Riel came to over 200 pages.[19]

Brown's was not the first depiction of the Métis leader in comics. James Simpkins, a Canadian cartoonist best known for Jasper the Bear, made a mildly anti-Riel two-page strip in 1967,[20] and Pierre Dupuis produced a French-language two-page summary in 1979.[21] A 23-page pro-Riel strip appeared in Canadian History Comic Book No. 2: Rebellion in 1972.[22] In 1980, Italian artist Hugo Pratt created a character called Jesuit Joe who was supposed to have descended from Riel.[23] Publishing house Les Éditions des Plaines published two books on Riel: Robert Freynet's 58-page Louis Riel en bande dessinée[a] ("Louis Riel in Comics") in 1990,[21] and Zoran and Toufik's Louis Riel, le père du Manitoba[b] ("Louis Riel, the Father of Manitoba") in 1996, both in French.[24] Riel also played a secondary role in the 1995 comic album Le crépuscule des Bois-Brûlés[c] ("The Twilight of Bois-Brûlés").[25]

## Plot

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Canada in 1870, after Manitoba (square in lower centre) was admitted into Confederation following the Red River Rebellion

The government of the new Dominion of Canada (established 1867), under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, has made a deal with the Hudson's Bay Company to purchase Rupert's Land—vast tracts of land in northern North America. The French-speaking Métis people, who are of both Indigenous and white ancestry, and inhabit parts of Rupert's Land—dispute that their land can be sold to the Canadians without their consent. In the Red River settlement, the Métis, led by Louis Riel, dodge political manoeuverings on the part of Lieutenant Governor William McDougall and some of the English-speaking settlers, while seizing Fort Garry. After an armed standoff at English-speaking settler John Schultz's home, the Métis declare a provisional government and vote Riel their president, with an even number of French and English representatives.[9] Schultz escapes from prison and rounds up a number of men with the intention of freeing the prisoners from Fort Garry, but when Riel lets the prisoners go, Schultz's men set out for home. On the way, a number of them pass Fort Garry, where they are captured and imprisoned. One of the prisoners, Thomas Scott, relentlessly quarrels with the guards, showering them with racial epithets. Eventually, the provisional government convicts him of treason and executes him by firing squad. The remaining prisoners are released, and the provisional government enters into negotiations with Ottawa, which results in the founding of the province of Manitoba. They are unable to get an amnesty for the execution of Scott, however. The Canadian army arrives, ostensibly to keep the peace. Riel flees to the U.S., and the anglophone population assumes governance.[26]

Schultz takes control of Manitoba, and the government of Ontario offers a cash reward for Riel's capture, dead or alive. Macdonald secretly sends Riel money to disappear, as his death would lose him votes in Quebec but allowing him to live would cost him votes in English Canada. Riel flees from town to town in the U.S. as bounty hunters try to track him down.[27] In 1873, he returns to the Manitoba and wins a seat in the federal Parliament in a by-election. He fears actually sitting in parliament because there is still a bounty on his head, and continues to live in hiding.[27] In 1874, he wins his seat again.[26] Schultz wins a seat in the settlement as well, however, and Alexander Mackenzie has become Prime Minister, running on promises not to grant the rebels an amnesty. Riel is expelled from Parliament for failing to sit, but wins his seat again in the next by-election. The frustrated government finally extends an amnesty to the rebels—all except Riel, whose amnesty is conditional on a five-year banishment from Canada. During his exile, he has a visionary experience on a hilltop in Washington, D.C., in which God names him David, the Prophet of the New World,[26] and tells him to lead the Métis to freedom.[28] In 1876, Riel is secretly committed by a friend to a lunatic asylum near Montréal under a false name.[29]

Contemporary print of the Battle of Batoche, on which Brown based the cover to Louis Riel #8

Over the next several years, the Métis, unhappy with the Canadian government's handling of their land rights, move farther west across the Prairies.[9] There as well, they see their petitions to the government repeatedly ignored and their rights trampled on. Finally, after being ignored for too long, the Métis search for Riel in Montana, in the hope that his return will force the Canadians to take their claims seriously. He is reluctant at first, as he has started a family and settled down as a schoolmaster. In the hopes that he will get money from the Canadian government for his tenure administering the Red River settlement (by this time known as Winnipeg), he moves his family to Batoche (now in Saskatchewan) in mid-1884. Macdonald has returned to the prime ministership and conspires with George Stephen, president of the financially burdened Canadian Pacific Railway, to use the situation to gain support for finishing the railway. By inciting a violent revolt amongst the Métis, the government can justify funding the railway to move troops to the Prairies.[9] The Métis under Riel respond with arms as intended. Riel declares "Rome has fallen!" and breaks from the Catholic Church. He breathes the Holy Spirit into his followers, thereafter known as the Exovedate. Tensions build until the bloodshed at the Battle of Duck Lake, where Riel and his followers drive back the North-West Mounted Police. Macdonald takes this as a cue to send two thousand troops to the area. At the Battle of Fish Creek, the outnumbered Métis manage to drive back the Canadians, but at the Battle of Batoche, while Riel is increasingly immersed in religious activities, the Métis finally suffer defeat. In the hope that his trial will provide an opportunity to get the Métis' story to the public, Riel surrenders instead of fleeing.[30]

In July 1885, Riel is put on trial in Regina for his role as leader in the North-West Rebellion.[31] Against his will, Riel's lawyer tries unsuccessfully to defend him on grounds of insanity.[26] He is found guilty of high treason. Though the jury pleads for mercy, he is sentenced to hang. In response to the pleas of Quebeckers to pardon Riel, Macdonald responds, "He shall hang though every dog in Quebec bark in his favour".[32] After reconciling himself with the Church, Riel is hanged in Regina on 16 November 1885.[9] In the aftermath, the remaining rebels receive a pardon, Macdonald and Stephen continue in their success, and Riel's wife dies.[27]

## Primary characters

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Louis Riel

John A. Macdonald

Photographs of the book's two adversaries

### Louis Riel

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Riel (1844–85) was a French-speaking Métis politician from a devoutly Catholic background.[33] He founded and named the Province of Manitoba (a Cree word meaning "the god that speaks"[34][d]). He led the two Métis rebellions against the Canadian government: the Red River Rebellion of 1869–70 and the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Following the latter, he was hanged for high treason.[35] Riel remains an ambiguous and controversial figure in Canadian history, and Brown's depiction maintains that ambiguity.[32]

Riel is depicted as charismatic. He is Montréal-educated and speaks English, which makes him a natural leader to the Métis,[9] though his leadership is flawed—he ignores the military advice of his peers in battle, placing his faith in God that the Métis will defeat the Canadians.[36] Brown depicts him as having a messianic complex and possibly having schizophrenia.[29] He is unsure of himself, averse to bloodshed, and easily convinced to flee to the U.S. to avoid capture.[27]

### John A. Macdonald

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Macdonald (1815–91) was the first Prime Minister of Canada, in office 1867–73, and again 1878–91.[37] Brown depicts the Prime Minister in the role of scheming villain and caricatures his features in an absurd manner, giving him an extremely oversized nose[38] and showing him as a drunk. He is a man of ambitions and will not let anyone stand in the way of his legacy. In the appendix, however, Brown discloses that he does not see Macdonald as the villain he has portrayed in the book.[32] Brown's distrust of big government leads him to push the conspiracy theory side of the story to Macdonald's detriment, but, in the end, he states that he "would rather have lived in a state run by John A. Macdonald than one run by Louis Riel".[39]

## Style

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> "My ... one goal was to make the artwork look as much as the artwork in Little Orphan Annie as possible, I was trying to draw like Harold Gray.”

> — Chester Brown, interview with Matthias Wivel (2004)[40]

Louis Riel is noted for its emotional restraint,[41] and intentionally flat and expository dialogue.[42] To critic Rich Kreiner the book "has been rigorously scrubbed of staged drama and crowd-pleasing effects".[12] It avoids manipulation of the reader by invoking sympathy or sentiment. Brown takes a distanced approach and relies faithfully on his source material—he focuses on the concrete and corporeal and eschews techniques of speculation such as thought balloons. This includes his presentation of Riel's mystical experiences, which Brown presents plainly and without interpretation of its reality or lack thereof.[12]

The book makes frequent deliberate use of silent panels, focused on imagery[43] with the narrative moved forward by the characters' actions. Riel's "despairs over the decisions he makes" are expressed through pictures, as Brown had come to believe that historical comics had been too "narration-heavy".[44] He wanted Louis Riel "to show what the medium is capable of",[44] and made use of greater panel-to-panel continuity.[2] While the grid of panels gives a feeling of page symmetry, the pages are not composed as a unit—scenes change anywhere on the page with little regard to page layout.[26]

Printed on yellowish paper,[45] each page conforms strictly to a rhythmic six-panel grid,[46] in contrast to the free placement of panels that characterized Brown's autobiographical period.[47] Tone and mood are set by the composition of the panels, as during Riel's trial when all tonal variation is dropped, and the white figures are placed against a heavy black background,[32] which emphasizes the claustrophobic atmosphere.[27]

Brown makes the language barriers that separate the characters visual by having Riel drop the letter "h" in his dialogue (e.g. "over t'e last several days") and by putting French-language dialogue in ⟨chevron brackets⟩ and Cree language dialogue in ⟨⟨double-chevrons⟩⟩. He shows Riel, who was an educated and sophisticated speaker of French, struggling with English. These touches emphasize that English was not yet a dominant language in the regions in which the story unfolds.[27] Brown uses consistent semantics in his speech balloons; the size and weight of the dialogue varies according to speech patterns, and sound effects vary according to how close they are to the reader.[26]

Brown's drawing style had always changed from project to project.[9] He frequently cited Harold Gray of Little Orphan Annie as the primary influence on the drawing style of Louis Riel—restrained artwork which avoids extreme closeups,[48] and blank-eyed characters with large bodies, small heads, and oversized noses.[49] Gray's drawing and compositional style was well suited to the subject of Louis Riel. Gray often used his strip as a public platform for politics, and Louis Riel was also very public and outward-looking. This approach is in great contrast to the inward-looking comics Brown had previously been known for—notably his autobiographical work. His cross-hatching style was reminiscent of the editorial cartoonists of Riel's time. Gray's outdoor scenes were inspired by the Illinois plains of Gray's youth, terrain similar to that of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.[50]

Brown also acknowledges significant debts to Jack Jackson's historical comics,[51] Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin,[52] and the extremely exaggerated style of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe.[40] He says he referred to Jack Hamm's How to Draw Animals when drawing the horses that appear frequently throughout the book,[53] which were rendered running with their legs splayed, as an artist may have depicted them in the days before the influence of Eadweard Muybridge's photographs of bodies in motion.[26] Brown drew each of the 1325[23] panels separately on watercolour paper[15] on a block of wood he placed on his lap in lieu of a drawing table,[36] which allowed him seamlessly to rearrange, insert, and delete panels as he saw fit.[40] The drawings were finished using both a thin ink brush (no larger than size 0) and dip pen with a Hunt 102 nib and black ink.[54]

### Appendices

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Thomas Bland Strange's appearance is ahistorical, but his name amused Brown.

When he began Louis Riel, Brown had increasingly been making use of notes and appendices in his work,[55] beginning with his researching and annotating the 1994 comics essay, "My Mom was a Schizophrenic".[56] He added appendices to the 1998 collection of short strips, The Little Man, and the 2002 reprinting of I Never Liked You.[55] In Louis Riel, the appendix totalled 23 pages, along with a bibliography and an index.[57] Alan Moore's use of extensive end notes in his and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, another fictional reconstruction of a historical event, influenced Brown's appendices.[34] In the comics essay "Dance of the Gull Catchers" which closes the From Hell appendices, Moore metaphorically reveals to the reader the myriad choices he could have made from the available historical evidence when putting together his version of the Jack the Ripper story.[58]

Allowing him to "tell the best story and tell the truth",[9] Brown's notes were self-reflexive, and drew attention to the artistic choices he made when putting together the book.[59] Brown makes explicit the inaccuracies in the book,[60] as when he realized his drawings of William McDougall did not match up with descriptions of him by biographers as a "portly" and "heavily built man".[2] Brown chose not to redraw McDougall's scenes, deciding he "could live with that level of inaccuracy".[61] He also admits that he deliberately changed some of the historical details, as when he has Prime Minister Macdonald in talks with the Hudson's Bay Company in London—Macdonald was not in London at that time and did not directly participate in the negotiations. In other instances, Brown noted where he paid special care to historical details: the dialogue of Riel's trial comes directly from court transcripts.[62] Brown makes clear in his notes the amount of research undertaken for the book, emphasizing both its authenticity and his desire to show the different aspects of Riel's ambiguous story.[32] Many of his changes were made for space considerations, as he intended to limit the book to about two hundred pages.[40]

The notes range from nearly insignificant details to major discrepancies and deliberate distortions.[12] They have a self-deprecatory tone that is common in North American comics, tracing its roots to the awkwardly self-aware underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s. They also reveal Brown's process in shaping the story from conflicting sources.[52] He acknowledges some of the more capricious details. He explains he was not committed to the conspiracy theory he presented, but included it in order to present Macdonald in a certain light: "[V]illains are fun in a story", he said, and he was "trying to tell this tale in an engaging manner".[55] He also included a "Major-General Thomas Bland Strange" in an 1885 meeting at which the general was not actually present. Brown explains that he included Strange because he was amused by the Major-General's name.[55]

## Publication history

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Brown's Louis Riel and Paying for It were the first two Drawn & Quarterly comics to become available for e-readers, in a non-exclusive deal with Kobo Inc.

Brown originally meant Louis Riel to be published in book form, but his publisher, Chris Oliveros, convinced him to serialize it first.[63] Drawn & Quarterly published the ten comic-book instalments from 1999 until 2003.[64] Brown was granted CA$6000 by the Canadian Council for the Arts in 2001 to assist in its completion.[65] The full volume appeared in hardcover in 2003 and softcover in 2006.[3] The book sold out its first printing in two months,[66] went through multiple printings, and had sold fifty thousand copies by the beginning of 2011.[67] The original serialization sold poorly, which made the book's success a surprise.[68]

The comic book and the collection both came with an extensive appendix, and the collection came with a bibliography and an index, all hand-lettered by Brown.[69] The collection's appendix came to 22 pages.[12]

In the original serialization, as the series progressed the influence of Harold Gray became stronger. The characters' heads became smaller while their bodies and hands grew larger, with Riel appearing "like the Hulk in a wool suit" after his hilltop religious revelation.[9] Brown redrew many of the earlier drawings to make them consistent with the later ones in the collected edition.[70] He added backgrounds, redrew,[36] added or deleted panels to improve page rhythms or make chapter divisions cleaner,[12] and reshaped or relettered word ballons. Dialogue remained intact for the most part, although the slur "frog" for the French-speaking Métis was replaced with "half-breed".[12]

In 2012, Drawn & Quarterly first began offering comics in e-book format, prompted in part by Brown. His Louis Riel and Paying for It were the first two books made available,[71] though Brown is a print-lover who professes little interest in e-books, or computers in general.[72] The non-exclusive deal was made with Toronto-based Kobo Inc.[73] A tenth-anniversary edition in 2013 included sketches and other supplemental material.[74]

French and Italian editions appeared in 2004—the Italian from Coconino Press[57] and the French from the Belgian publisher Casterman. To appeal to francophones in Europe, where Riel is not well known, Casterman had the book titled Louis Riel: l'insurgé ("Louis Riel: Rebel"). The Montreal-based publisher La Pastèque obtained the rights to the book and re-released it as Louis Riel with a different cover in 2012.[75]

Translations of Louis Riel Language  | Title  | Publisher  | Date  | Translator  | ISBN

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French  | Louis Riel: l'insurgé[76] | Casterman | 2004  | Piero Macola  | 978-84-7833-717-0
Louis Riel[75] | La Pastèque | 2012  | Sidonie Van den Dries  | 978-2-922585-96-4
Italian  | Louis Riel[77] | Coconino Press/Black Velvet  | 2004  | Omar Martini  | 978-88-7618-000-2
Spanish  | Louis Riel: Un cómic biográfico[78] | Ediciones La Cúpula [es] | 2006  | Montserrat Terrones Suárez  | 978-84-7833-717-0
Polish  | Louis Riel: Biografia Komiksowa[79] | Timof I Cisi Wspolnicy [pl] | 2014  | Bartosz Sztybor  | 978-83-63963-20-0

## Reception and legacy

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Though not the first work of biography in comics, Louis Riel was the first completed of its length and depth.[80] The book sold well,[81] and became the first graphic novel to reach Canada's non-fiction bestseller list.[82] A critical and commercial success,[57] it was especially popular with libraries and schools.[67] Comics academic Jeet Heer states that it has perhaps sold more copies in Canada than any other graphic novel.[50] Publishers Weekly called it "a strong contender for the best graphic novel ever",[83] Time magazine included it in its annual Best Comix list in 2003,[84] and, in 2009, the Toronto Star placed it on its list of the ten best books of "The Century So Far".[85] It is regularly cited as being at the forefront of a trend in historical graphic novels, along with Art Spiegelman's Maus and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis.[86]

Especially in Canada, Louis Riel brought Brown out of the fringes into the mainstream,[67] and also attracted more serious attention to graphic novels.[32] It was the first work of comics to receive a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts (although Brown's libertarian politics have led him to condemn the government for handing out grants[6]), and helped pave the way for the Council's special category for graphic novels.[87] The book was optioned for a movie by Bruce McDonald and another film director, though the project never started filming.[88]

Researching Riel had a significant impact on Brown's thinking. When he started the book, he considered himself an anarchist. His intention was to write an anti-government book, and had a bias in Riel's favour—despite what Brown considered Riel's own political conservatism—as Riel opposed the government. Over the course of drawing the book, he came to sympathize more with Macdonald.[40] His reading led him in 1998 to The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages by Tom Bethell, which led him change his own politics to favour libertarianism. He later ran for parliament as representative of the Libertarian Party of Canada, to the dismay of his friends.[6] At one point, after Brown had started drawing the book, he tried to rewrite the script to reflect his changed perspective, but found it too difficult and stayed with the original script. He revealed his new beliefs only in the appendix.[40]

Reviewer Dennis Duffy commended Brown's research, but stated Brown "often cheats" in assigning forethought to Macdonald's action unattested in historical documents.[89] Critic Rich Kreiner found that Brown's disengaged approach to Louis Riel invited a reader-response approach to reading it. As an example, it was the impetus for an in-depth, three-part interview conducted by Dave Sim in the pages of his comic book Cerebus, which Sim uses as an opportunity to apply his own idiosyncratic views to an interpretation of events in Brown's book.[e][12]

### Awards

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Awards and award nominations for Louis Riel Year  | Organization  | Award  | Result

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2000  | Harvey Awards | Best New Series[90] | Nominated
2002  | Ignatz Awards | Outstanding Artist[91] | Nominated
2003  | Harvey Awards  | Best Cartoonist[92] | Nominated
2003  | Harvey Awards  | Best Continuing or Limited Series[92] | Nominated
2004  | Harvey Awards  | Best Cartoonist[93] | Won
2004  | Harvey Awards  | Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work[93] | Won
2004  | Harvey Awards  | Best Writer[93] | Won
2004  | Ignatz Awards  | Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection[94] | Nominated
2004  | Ignatz Awards  | Outstanding Artist[94] | Nominated
2004  | Eisner Awards | Best Graphic Album—Reprint[95] | Nominated
2004  | Eisner Awards  | Best Publication Design[95] | Nominated

## Adaptations

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The Montreal-based RustWerk ReFinery adapted the book in 2016 as Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Stage Play. The bilingual play uses black-and-white cut-out puppets, live actors, and shadow imagery.[96]

## See also

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* David Collier
* Franco-Manitobans
* History of Manitoba
* History of Saskatchewan
* Louis Riel, 1967 opera
* Manitoba Schools Question

Portals:

* Indigenous peoples of the Americas
* Canada
* Biography
* Comics
* History

## Notes

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1. ^ Freynet, Robert (1990). Louis Riel en bande dessinée (in French). Les Éditions des Plaines. ISBN 978-0-920944-92-9.
2. ^ Zoran; Toufik (1996). Louis Riel, le père du Manitoba. Les Éditions des Plaines. ISBN 2-921353-44-X.
3. ^ Quesnel, Christian (1995). Le crépuscule des Bois-Brûlés (in French). Du Vermillion. ISBN 978-1-895873-07-8.
4. ^ Other translations contradict the one given here (see Manitoba), but "the god that speaks" is the translation Riel's character gives in the story.
5. ^ Sim's interview with Brown appears in Cerebus #295–297.[57]

## References

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1. ^ MacDonald 2012, p. 56.
2. ^ a b c Hutcheon 2010, p. 47.
3. ^ a b Booker 2010, p. 370.
4. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 47; Marshall 2005; MacDonald 2012, pp. 57–58.
5. ^ MacDonald 2012, pp. 57–58.
6. ^ a b c Weisblott 2008.
7. ^ Sim 2003a, p. 23.
8. ^ Hajdu & 2009/2010; Epp 2002.
9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Arnold & 2003-05-30.
10. ^ Wolk 2007, p. 155.
11. ^ Sim 2003a, p. 23; Hajdu & 2009/2010.
12. ^ a b c d e f g h Kreiner 2004.
13. ^ a b c Bell 2006, p. 164.
14. ^ Bell 2006, p. 162.
15. ^ a b Tousley 2005.
16. ^ Arnold & 2004-06-28.
17. ^ Wolk 2004.
18. ^ Bell 2006, pp. 164–165.
19. ^ Epp 2002; Wivel 2011b.
20. ^ Brown & May 2002, p. 25.
21. ^ a b Brown & October 2002, p. 24.
22. ^ Brown & February 2003, p. 24.
23. ^ a b Paquin 2006, p. 8.
24. ^ Brown & May 2002, p. 25; Paquin 2006, p. 8.
25. ^ Paquin 2006, p. 8; Brown & February 2003, p. 26.
26. ^ a b c d e f g Wivel 2011a.
27. ^ a b c d e f Marshall 2005.
28. ^ Arnold & 2003-05-30; Wolk 2007, p. 155.
29. ^ a b Wolk 2007, p. 153.
30. ^ Marshall 2005; Wivel 2011a.
31. ^ Lander 2005, p. 117.
32. ^ a b c d e f Hajdu & 2009/2010.
33. ^ Stanley 1963, pp. 13–20.
34. ^ a b Epp 2002.
35. ^ Johnson 2012b.
36. ^ a b c Shulgan 2003.
37. ^ Johnson 2012a.
38. ^ Arnold & 2003-05-30; Shulgan 2003.
39. ^ Bell 2006, p. 166; Park 2011.
40. ^ a b c d e f Wivel 2011b.
41. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 47; Wolk 2007, p. 154.
42. ^ Wolk 2007, p. 154.
43. ^ Bell 2006, p. 165.
44. ^ a b Hutcheon 2010, p. 46.
45. ^ Booker 2010, p. 370; Hajdu & 2009/2010; Kreiner 2004.
46. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 47; Booker 2010, p. 370; Wolk 2004; Wivel 2011a.
47. ^ Paquin 2006, p. 9.
48. ^ Heer 2003.
49. ^ Booker 2010, p. 370; Arnold & 2003-05-30; Wolk 2007, p. 153.
50. ^ a b Spurgeon 2009.
51. ^ Rogers 2011, part 8.
52. ^ a b Lander 2005, p. 119.
53. ^ Sim 2003c, p. 46.
54. ^ Toronto Public Library staff 2005.
55. ^ a b c d Park 2011.
56. ^ Bell 2006, p. 164; Park 2011.
57. ^ a b c d Bell 2006, p. 166.
58. ^ MacDonald 2012, p. 58.
59. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 47; Bell 2006, p. 166.
60. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 47; Wolk 2007, p. 155; Kreiner 2004.
61. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 47; MacDonald 2012.
62. ^ Hutcheon 2010, p. 48.
63. ^ Bell 2006, p. 165; MacDonald 2004.
64. ^ Booker 2010, p. 369.
65. ^ Weisblott 2008; Canada Council staff 2002, p. 29.
66. ^ Arnold & 2004-04-12.
67. ^ a b c Adams 2011.
68. ^ McGillis 2011.
69. ^ Shulgan 2003; Park 2011; Wolk 2004; Kreiner 2004.
70. ^ Kreiner 2004; Tousley 2005.
71. ^ Reid 2011; ICTMN Staff 2012.
72. ^ Spurgeon 2012.
73. ^ ICTMN Staff 2012.
74. ^ Collins 2016.
75. ^ a b Slobod 2015, p. 82.
76. ^ Paquin 2006, pp. 8–9; Slobod 2015, p. 82.
77. ^ "Louis Riel product page". Coconino Press. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2011-05-02. (in Italian)
78. ^ "Louis Riel. Un cómic biográfico Product page". Ediciones La Cúpula. Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2011-05-12. (in Spanish)
79. ^ Giedrys 2015.
80. ^ Lanzendörfer 2011, p. 27.
81. ^ MacKay 2011; Adams 2011.
82. ^ Bell 2006, p. 166; Baker & Atkinson 2004; Collins 2016.
83. ^ Bethune 2004.
84. ^ Arnold & 2003-12-18.
85. ^ Smith 2009.
86. ^ Lander 2005; Wright 2009.
87. ^ Doane 2004.
88. ^ Rogers 2011, part 4.
89. ^ Duffy & 2004/2005, p. 447.
90. ^ Harvey Awards staff 2000.
91. ^ Ignatz Awards staff 2002.
92. ^ a b Harvey Awards staff 2003.
93. ^ a b c Harvey Awards staff 2004.
94. ^ a b Ignatz Awards staff 2004.
95. ^ a b Weiland 2004.
96. ^ Little 2016.

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#### Books

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* Wolk, Douglas (2007). "Chester Brown: The Outsider". Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. Da Capo Press. pp. 147–155. ISBN 978-0-306-81509-6.

#### Journals and magazines

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* Baker, John F.; Atkinson, Nathalie (2004-05-17). "The World Needs More Canada". Publishers Weekly. 251 (20). Retrieved 2012-02-15.
* Brown, Chester (May 2002). Louis Riel (7). Drawn & Quarterly. `{{cite journal}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
* Brown, Chester (October 2002). Louis Riel (8). Drawn & Quarterly. `{{cite journal}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
* Brown, Chester (February 2003). Louis Riel (9). Drawn & Quarterly. `{{cite journal}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
* Duffy, Dennis (Winter 2004–2005). "The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture, and: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography". University of Toronto Quarterly. 74 (1). University of Toronto Press: 446–447\. doi:10.1353/utq.2005.0034. S2CID 161953323.
* Hajdu, Maya (2009–2010). "Visualizing Memory in the Graphic Novel". Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History. VI. Archived from the original on 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
* Kreiner, Rich (2004). "The 2003 Year in Review: Books of the Year: Louis Riel". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
* Lander, Ben (2005). "Graphic Novels as History: Representing and Reliving the Past". Left History. 10 (2).
* Paquin, Éric (September–October 2006). "Distance graphique". Spirale (in French) (210): 8–9\. ISSN 0225-9044. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* Rogers, Sean (2011-05-09). "A John's Gospel: The Chester Brown Interview". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
* Sim, Dave (October 2003). "Getting Riel: Part 1". Cerebus (295). Aardvark-Vanaheim: 21–33\. ISSN 0712-7774.
* Sim, Dave (December 2003). "Getting Riel: Part 3". Cerebus (297). Aardvark-Vanaheim: 21–. ISSN 0712-7774.
* Wright, Amie (2009). Ecclestone, Meghan (ed.). "Graphic Novels in the Public Library". Faculty of Information Quarterly. 1 (1). University of Toronto. ISSN 1925-9107. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-04-10.

#### Newspapers

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* ICTMN Staff (2012-02-04). "Louis Riel Graphic Novel Is Part of E-Book Revolution". Indian Country Today. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
* McGillis, Ian (2011-05-14). "Laying it bare: an interview with Chester Brown". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
* Shulgan, Christopher (2003-08-14). "Louis 'Toons". The Globe and Mail. p. R3.
* Wolk, Douglas (2004-02-18). "On a Mission from God". City Pages. Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-02-22.

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* Adams, James (2011-04-30). "Entering Chester Brown's Red-Light District". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
* Arnold, Andrew D. (2003-05-30). "Really 'Riel' History". Time. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
* Arnold, Andrew D. (2003-12-18). "Time Magazine Best Comix of 2003". Time. Archived from the original on January 20, 2011. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
* Arnold, Andrew D. (2004-04-12). "Keeping It 'Riel'". Time. Archived from the original on 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
* Arnold, Andrew D. (2004-06-28). "Canada's Superhero". Time (Canadian edition). Archived from the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
* Bethune, Brian (2004-10-11). "Graphic Novels Entering the Literary Main Stream [sic]". Maclean's. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
* Collins, Leah (2016-01-20). "How Louis Riel became Canada's first-ever bestselling graphic novel". CBC. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
* Doane, Alan David (2004-02-24). "5 Questions for Chester Brown". Comic Book Galaxy. Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
* Epp, Darell (2002-01-29). "Two-Handed Man interviews cartoonist Chester Brown". Two-Handed Man. Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
* Giedrys, Kamil (2015). "Louis Riel – kolejny smutny bohater". Zeszytów Komiksowych [pl] (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2015-09-04.+[pl]&rft.atitle=Louis+Riel+–+kolejny+smutny+bohater&rft.date=2015&rft.aulast=Giedrys&rft.aufirst=Kamil&rft_id=http://www.zeszytykomiksowe.org/recenzja_louis_riel&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Louis+Riel+(comics)" class="Z3988">
* Harvey Awards staff (2000). "2000 Harvey Award Nominees". The Harvey Awards. Archived from the original on 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* Harvey Awards staff (2003). "2003 Harvey Award Nominees". The Harvey Awards. Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* Harvey Awards staff (2004). "2004 Harvey Award Winners". The Harvey Awards. Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
* Heer, Jeet (2003-11-06). "Little Orphan Louis". National Post. Archived from the original on May 7, 2006. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
* Ignatz Awards staff (2002). "2002 Ignatz Award Recipients". Small Press Expo. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
* Ignatz Awards staff (2004). "2002 Ignatz Award Recipients". Small Press Expo. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
* Johnson, J. K. (2012). "Sir John Alexander Macdonald". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
* Johnson, J. K. (2012). "Riel, Louis". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
* Lanzendörfer, Tim (2011). "Biographiction: Narratological Aspects of Chester Brown's Louis Riel". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 59 (1). De Gruyter: 27–40\. doi:10.1515/zaa.2011.59.1.27. ISSN 2196-4726. S2CID 163955113.
* Little, Jaime (2016-02-25). "Louis Riel comes to life as 2D puppet in new Montreal play". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
* MacDonald, Heidi (2004-04-20). "Chester Brown Restrains Himself". The Pulse. Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
* MacKay, Brad (2011-04-30). "Sex and the Single Cartoonist". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
* Marshall, Joan (2005-06-24). "Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography". University of Manitoba. Archived from the original on 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
* Park, Ed (2011-05-02). "Text Appeal". Toronto Standard (2010). Retrieved 2012-02-21.
* Reid, Calvin (2011-12-20). "D&Q Teams with Kobo To Release Digital Graphic Novels". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
* Smith, Dan (2009-06-20). "The Century So Far: Books". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
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* Spurgeon, Tom (2012-01-08). "CR Holiday Interview #19 – Chester Brown". The Comics Reporter. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
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* Tousley, Nancy (2005-03-01). "Interview: Chester Brown: Louis Riel's comic-strip biographer". Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
* Weiland, Jonah (2004-04-08). "2004 Eisner Award Nominees Announced". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
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* Wivel, Matthias (2011-05-31). "On the Real". Metabunker. Retrieved 2012-04-10. (this interview was originally conducted in 2004)

## Further reading

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* Cutrara, Samantha (2012). "Drawn Out of History: Representations of Women in Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography". In Iadonisi, Richard (ed.). Graphic History: Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 121–143\. ISBN 978-1-4438-4358-4.
* Langager, Ross (2006). History in the Gutters: A Critical Examination of Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-494-29886-2.
* Lesk, Andrew (2010). "Redrawing Nationalism: Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography". Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. 1 (1). Taylor & Francis: 63–81\. doi:10.1080/21504851003798595. S2CID 162578384.
* Meneses, Juan (Spring 2008). Lent, John A. (ed.). "A Bakhtinian Approach to Two Graphic Novels: The Individual in Art Spiegelman's Maus and Chester Brown's Louis Riel". International Journal of Comic Art. 10 (2): 598–606.

## External links

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* preview at Drawn & Quarterly's website.
* Excerpts from the transcripts of Riel's trial. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
* Excerpts from Brown's book.
* Influence of Harold Gray on Chester Brown's Louis Riel, at Moss Drake's blog. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
* Video clip Riel: Chester Brown's comic book hero  (2005-01-25) from the CBC Digital Archives website. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
* Louis Riel student guide Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at the National Association of Comics Art Educators

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Louis Riel

* Secretary of the National Committee of the Métis (1869)
* President of the Provisional Government/Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia (1869–1870)
* Member of Parliament for Provencher (1973–1974)

Life and politics|

* Red River Rebellion
* Manitoba Act, 1870
* Execution of Thomas Scott
* North-West Rebellion
* Provisional Government of Saskatchewan
* Battle of Batoche
* Trial of Louis Riel

Family|

* Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (grandfather)
* Marie-Anne Gaboury (grandmother)
* Louis Riel Sr. (father)
* Sara Riel (sister)
* Roger Teillet (grand-nephew)
* Yolande Teillet (grand-neice)

Related|

* Historiography of Louis Riel
* Louis Riel (comics)
* Louis Riel (opera)
* North West Mounted Police (film)
* Riel (film)
* Statue of Louis Riel
* West (TV series)
* Women of the Fur Trade

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Chester Brown

Major stories and periods|

* Ed the Happy Clown
* Gospels
* autobiography
* Underwater
* Louis Riel
* Paying for It

Collected works|

* Ed the Happy Clown
* The Playboy
* I Never Liked You
* The Little Man
* Louis Riel
* Paying for It
* Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus

Series|

* Yummy Fur
* Underwater
* Louis Riel
* Ed the Happy Clown

Other comics contributed to|

* American Splendor
* Real Stuff
* 1963
* The Narrative Corpse

Publishers|

* Vortex Comics
* Drawn & Quarterly

Related people|

* Seth
* Joe Matt
* Sook-Yin Lee

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* e

Drawn & Quarterly

Creators|

| English|

* Kate Beaton
* Chester Brown
* David Collier
* Julie Doucet
* Debbie Drechsler
* Kevin Huizenga
* Dylan Horrocks
* Jason Lutes
* Joe Matt
* Anders Nilsen
* Seth
* Adrian Tomine

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Translations|

* Guy Delisle
* Dupuy and Berberian
* Seiichi Hayashi
* Tove Jansson/Lars Jansson
* Susumu Katsumata
* Shigeru Mizuki
* Rutu Modan
* Michel Rabagliati
* Yoshihiro Tatsumi
* Tadao Tsuge
* Kuniko Tsurita
* Murasaki Yamada

Reprints|

* Frank King
* John Stanley
* Doug Wright

Series|

* Atlas
* Berlin
* Dirty Plotte
* Ed the Happy Clown
* Louis Riel
* Optic Nerve
* Palooka-Ville
* Peepshow
* Sabrina
* Underwater
* Yummy Fur

Other|

Alternative comics

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Canadian comics

* Quebec comics

English|

| Comic books|

* Brok Windsor
* Captain Canuck
* Cerebus
* Champions of Hell
* Chiaroscuro
* Clockwork Girl
* Ed the Happy Clown
* Glamourpuss
* Louis Riel
* Neil the Horse
* Nelvana of the Northern Lights
* Northguard
* Palookaville
* Scott Pilgrim
* Skim
* Thieves and Kings
* Underwater
* Yummy Fur

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Strips|

* The Avridge Farm
* The Barn
* Backbench
* Ben
* Betty
* Between Friends
* Capitalist Piglet
* The Chosen Family
* Cornered
* Deflocked
* Doc and Raider
* Fisher
* For Better or For Worse
* Galaxion
* GLitcH!
* Herman
* It Happened in Canada
* Nightschool
* The Other Coast
* Pooch Café
* Space Moose
* User Friendly
* VG Cats
* Weltschmerz

French|

| Magazines|

* Croc
* MensuHell
* Safarir

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Series/|

* Les Aventures de Timothée
* The Bellybuttons (Les Nombrils)
* Onésime
* The Postman from Space

Publishers|

* Aardvark-Vanaheim
* Aircel Comics
* Anglo-American Publishing
* Arcana Studio
* Bell Features
* Black Eye Productions
* Chapterhouse Comics
* Class Comics
* Conundrum Press
* Coscom Entertainment
* Dragon Lady Press
* Drawn & Quarterly
* Dreamwave Productions
* Hillborough Studios
* Koyama Press
* New Reliable Press
* Les 400 coups
* Lev Gleason Publications
* Maple Leaf Publishing
* Mécanique Générale
* Mille-Îles
* La Pastèque
* Red 5 Comics
* Strawberry Jam Comics
* Vortex Comics

Awards|

* Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association
* Joe Shuster Award
* Doug Wright Award
* Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame

Conventions|

* Fan Expo Canada
* Montreal Comiccon
* Otakuthon
* Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon
* Toronto Comicon
* Toronto Comic Arts Festival
* Ottawa Comiccon
* Hal-Con
* Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

People|

* List of Canadian comics creators
* Mark Askwith
* John Bell
* Deni Loubert
* Diana Schutz

Shops|

* The Beguiling
* Dragon Lady Comics
* Happy Harbor Comics
* Heroes Comics
* Paradise Comics
* Strange Adventures
* Now & Then Books

Books about/D.W. Series|

1987 - D.W. Flips!

1988 - D.W. All Wet 1993 - D.W. Thinks Big 1993 - D.W. Rides Again! 1995 - D.W. the Picky Eater 1998 - D.W.'s Lost Blankie 1999 - D.W. Go to Your Room! 2001 - D.W.'s Library Card 2003 - D.W.'s Guide to Preschool 2006 - D.W.'s Guide to Perfect Manners

* The Great Canadian Comic Books
* Invaders from the North

TV/Arthur Adventure Series|

* 1979 - Arthur's Eyes

1980 - Arthur's Valentine 1981 - The True Francine (later republished and retitled in 1996 as "Arthur and the True Francine") 1982 - Arthur Goes to Camp 1982 - Arthur's Halloween 1983 - Arthur's April Fool 1983 - Arthur's Thanksgiving 1984 - Arthur's Christmas 1985 - Arthur's Tooth 1987 - Arthur's Baby 1989 - Arthur's Birthday 1990 - Arthur's Pet Business 1991 - Arthur Meets the President 1992 - Arthur Babysits 1993 - Arthur's Family Vacation 1993 - Arthur's New Puppy 1994 - Arthur's Chicken Pox 1994 - Arthur's First Sleepover 1995 - Arthur's TV Trouble 1996 - Arthur Writes a Story 1997 - Arthur's Computer Disaster 1998 - Arthur Lost and Found 1999 - Arthur's Underwear 2000 - Arthur's Teacher Moves In 2011 - Arthur Turns Green

* The Anti-Gravity Room
* Prisoners of Gravity

Other|

* Association of Canadian Cartoonists
* Canadian Society for the Study of Comics
* Canadian Whites
* Comic Book Confidential
* Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund

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