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...progression of dead presidents: President Abraham Lincoln, elected in 1860, was assassinated in a theater in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, who seemed to think he was helping the South. President James Garfield, elected in 1880, was assassinated by a not-too-sane man who would have preferred Chester Arthur as President...
...Louis Riel," by Chester Brown How does a history of a real 19th-century Quebecois rebel mystic become fun to read? When he is drawn with the clownish proportions of a tiny head and a giant's body. Chester Brown makes history his own by rewriting it just slightly, while annotating every altered detail, and presenting it all in his spare, almost goofy drawing style. When the series reaches its end in 2001, it will be collected. Now if only he would finish his version of the Gospels...
...Louis Riel" by Chester Brown has not been collected yet. The individual issues ($2.95 each) are published by Drawn & Quarterly and can be found at superior comicbook stores and the D&Q website...
This "cartoonist's-eye view," jokingly presented as a scientific inquiry, featured artwork by well-known cartoonists such as Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, and other artists from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper...
...independents. The Democrats managed to persuade one of the independents to join their ranks, but then Republicans peeled off the other independent, Senator William Mahone of Virginia, by dangling before him the Agriculture Committee chairmanship and the power to pick the Senate's Sergeant at Arms. Republican Vice President Chester A. Arthur cast the tie-breaking vote so the G.O.P. could take over the chamber. But legislative business quickly ground to a halt when angry Democrats refused to show up for any floor votes...