Chester Brown is a Canadian cartoonist and graphic novelist known for his unconventional and often autobiographical works. His notable publications include "Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography," which received critical acclaim for its historical accuracy and artistic style. Brown's work often explores themes of politics, history, and personal identity, and he is considered a pioneering figure in the alternative comics movement.

"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."



"Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things."



"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."



"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."



"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."



"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."



"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."

