Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses...
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ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781250049940 (1250049946)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
So apparently I'm on a sequential art jag: graphic novels and memoirs and history. There's no way a memoir about the time just after the inexplicable death of his very young daughter can not be heartbreaking, but that's certainly not the main emotion I felt on reading this. Of course I felt so sorry...
It's amazing how Tom Hart can so clearly set out his way of looking at the world and drawing connections between art and life and emotion in beautiful comic pages, on a subject so devastating that it might be thought to just crumble the brain against thinking about it.
It's amazing how Tom Hart can so clearly set out his way of looking at the world and drawing connections between art and life and emotion in beautiful comic pages, on a subject so devastating that it might be thought to just crumble the brain against thinking about it.
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