PAST EVENT
Tillie Walden, Lee Lai and more join D&Q at TCAF from June 6 to 7 in Toronto, ON
Friday, June 5, 2026 to Sunday, June 7, 2026
12:00am
Chester Brown
Chester Brown was born in Montreal in 1960. He is the author of seven books and is best known for the non-fiction graphic novels Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography (2003) and Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John (2011). In 2024, Brown created a Louis Riel stamp for Canada Post as part of a set honouring Canadian cartoonists. He lives in Toronto.
PAST EVENT
Chester Brown Q&A at Paying For It Screenings in NYC!
Friday, January 30, 2026 to Sunday, February 1, 2026
07:30pm
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Chester Brown & Sook-yin Lee sign at Desert Island Comics in Brooklyn, NY on January 29
Thursday, January 29, 2026 to Thursday, January 29, 2026
07:00pm
PAST EVENT
Raymond Biesinger, Chester Brown & Jillian Tamaki head to Word On The Street Toronto, September 27-28!
Saturday, September 27, 2025 to Sunday, September 28, 2025
11:00am
PAST EVENT
Meet & Greet Chester Brown in Toronto on February 21
Friday, February 21, 2025 to Friday, February 21, 2025
05:00pm
PAST EVENT
Chester Brown Goes West: Calgary and Vancouver events
Friday, September 27, 2024 to Tuesday, October 1, 2024
04:00pm
PAST EVENT
Paying For It: The Film Premieres at TIFF!
Thursday, September 5, 2024 to Thursday, September 12, 2024
01:30pm
September 3, 2024
Paying for It selected as Top 10 movies at TIFF by Toronto Star!
“Based on Chester Brown’s graphic novel of the same name, and on the real-life uncoupling of Brown and filmmaker...
May 19, 2024
CBC interviews Seth about inclusion in Canada Post stamp series
A new stamp series has been released by Canada Post featuring four Canadian graphic novelists.
The stamps include work ...
August 1, 2022
Chester Brown’s Paying For It is being adapted by Sook-Yin Lee
Chester Brown’s 2011 graphic novel Paying For It is being made into a movie to be directed and co-written by award-nom...
July 19, 2019
The Globe and Mail Reviews Hamilton Gallery’s Canadian Indie Comics Exhibition
There’s a particularly fanciful example in This is Serious: Canadian Indie Comics, an ambitious survey now showing at ...
June 27, 2019
Art Gallery of Hamilton features work of Chester Brown, Sylvia Nickerson, Kate Beaton and More!
Here’s an interesting art world experiment: type “are comics art?” into a search engine then tumble in...
May 3, 2017
Blogue Ici Artv parle des BD biographiques de D+Q
Comme le dit le dicton : il faut connaître le passé pour comprendre le présent et construire l’avenir. Une façon ...
January 18, 2017
Chester Brown interviewed in Open Book
You might be forgiven for thinking that Chester Brown immigrated to Toronto from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lothlórien...
Chester Brown on QCX
We have a very special guest on QCX this week, the amazing & talented Chester Brown! It was really awesome to…
Studio 4: Paying For it (1/2)
Graphic Novelist & Cartoonist Chester Brown is interviewed by Fanny Kiefer on Shaw TV’s Studio 4 in Vancouver and discusses his…
Studio 4: Paying For it (2/2)
[2/2]. Graphic Novelist & Cartoonist Chester Brown is interviewed by Fanny Kiefer on Shaw TV’s Studio 4 in Vancouver and discusses…
Vote for your favorite D&Q authors in the 2025 Harvey and Ignatz Awards!
Drawn & Quarterly congratulates Rachel Ang, Chester Brown, Tara Booth, Guy Delisle, Michael D. Kennedy, Jason Lutes, María Medem, and Keiler…