Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Chris Oliveros

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?is Quebec-born cartoonist Oliveros' deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian historythe rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today. It all started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal neighborhood were blown to bits by handmade bombs. By the following year, a guerilla army training camp was set up deep in the woods, with would-be soldiers training for armed revolt.

There are no initials more volatile in Quebec history than F-L-Q. Standing for the Front de libration du Qubec (or in English, the Quebec Liberation Front). The original goal of this socialist movement was to fight for workers rights of the French majority who found their rights trampled on by English bosses. The goal became ridding the province of its English oppression by means of violent revolution.

At times humorous, other times dramatic, and always informative,Are You Willing To Die For The Cause?shines a light on just how little it takes to organize dissent and who people trust to overthrow the government. (From Drawn & Quarterly)

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Chris Oliveros is a Montreal-based writer and publisher. In 1989, he founded Drawn & Quarterly, a Montreal publishing company that specializes in comics. He left the company in 2015 to work on Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

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Chris Oliveros blazed the trail in Canadian book publishing when he started Drawn & Quarterly in 1989.He left the company eight years ago to write his own comic book. 'Are you willing to die for the cause?' takes a closer look at the FLQ - the Quebec Liberation Front; bringing to the surface some lesser known details about the three men who, at different times, tried and failed to start a revolution.