<B>A limited-edition reprint of Brown’s celebrated biography of the Canadian rebel</B><BR><BR><I>Louis Riel </I>tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nation’s western frontier. Chester Brown’s carefully researched, exquisitely illustrated, and much-lauded biography goes deep into the myths and the facts about this man, whose place in Canadian history is troubled: Riel has been alternately vilified as a murderer and mourned as a martyr. His involvement in the Red River Rebellion and the subsequent North-West Rebellion are brilliantly and dispassionately laid out in a finely etched style, as are the Canadian government’s responses to the Metis people’s demands. Brown’s even-handed approach makes these disastrous events all the more moving.<BR> When the collected book appeared in 2003, Brown won widespread critical and industry acclaim for <I>Louis Riel</I>, including two Harvey Awards<I> </I>and inclusion on countless best-of lists. Beyond that, it single-handedly revitalized the biography genre of comics, paving the way for a new generation of artists. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of <I>Louis Riel</I>’s publication, Drawn and Quarterly is reissuing the book as a deluxe paperback, with a new introduction contextualizing the work’s importance and the original pamphlet covers collected and reproduced in full color.