Are You Willing to Die for the Cause by Chris Oliveros

A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history -
the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate
today.
It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal
neighborhood were blown to bits by handmade bombs. By the following year,
a guerrilla army camp was set up deep in the woods, with would-be soldiers
training for armed revolt. Then, in 1966, two high-school studentsdropped off
bombs at factories, causing fatalities. What was behind these concerted, often
bungled acts of terrorism, and how did they last for nearly eight years?
In Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, Quebec-born cartoonist Chris
Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early
years of a movement that, while now defunct, still holds a tight grip on the
hearts and minds of Quebec citizenry and Canadian politics. There are
noinitials more volatile in Quebec history than FLQ - the Front de liberation du
Quebec (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.
Using dozens of obscure and long-forgotten sources, Oliveros skillfully
weaves a comics oral history where the activists, employers, politicians, and
secretaries piece together the sequence of events.

Chris Oliveros was born in 1966 in Montreal and grew up in the nearby
suburb of Chomedey, Laval. He founded Drawn & Quarterly in 1989 and was
the publisher for the following twenty-five years. Oliveros stepped down from
D+Q in 2015 to work on Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

Drawn & Quarterly
On Sale: Oct 24/23
9 x 8 • 160 pages
Full-color illustrations throughout
9781770466616 • $29.95 • cl
Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary