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 25 years. Oliveros stepped down from D+Q in 2015 to work on Are You Willing to Die For The Cause?, a graphic novel about the early years of the Front de libération du Québec.
