Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the death of his young daughter, Rosalie, and his family's search for meaning in the aftermath of her loss.
Tom Hart is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and critically acclaimed Eisner-nominated cartoonist and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Florida. He is the creator of Daddy Lightning, and the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books. The Collected Hutch Owen was nominated for best graphic novel in 2000. He won a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists. He teaches sequential art at the University of Florida and taught at NYC's School of Visual Arts for 10 years.
"If it's hard to talk about Rosalie Lightning without sounding
hyperbolic, it's only because its achievement is so breathtaking:
it is the bravest act of writing and bearing witness I expect to
see in my lifetime. There aren't words of praise sufficient to this
brave, unblinking task. It will comfort the grieving for
generations to come; I am profoundly grateful for this book."
--John Darnielle, author of Wolf in White Van "Tom Hart's Rosalie
Lightning is honest, searching, burning, and beautiful. Every
parent will find a piece of themselves in this unforgettable
graphic memoir." --Scott McCloud, author of THE SCULPTOR "I don't
know how Tom Hart was able to make such a stunning, harrowing book
out of his devastation and rage; it strikes me as most gracious and
humane thing anyone could possibly do. Reading Rosalie Lightning is
like standing at the edge of an abyss and watching someone
construct a gleaming titanium bridge by sheer, overwhelming force
of love." --Lauren Groff, New York Times Bestselling author "Only a
cartoonist of tremendous skill and a father with loads of guts
could piece through his heartbreak and come out with such a piece
of art. I can't read it without crying." --Austin Kleon, author of
Steal Like An Artist
"Tom Hart's black-and-white "RL,"... recounts the loss of his
2-year-old daughter Rosalie by building a hill of fragile,
elegantly drawn memories around it. It's a bleak and devastating
work that shows comics' ability to convey emotion as effectively as
any short fiction or literature." --Denver Post "This memoir about
the death of his young daughter, is EVERYTHING I WANT IN A GRAPHIC
MEMOIR. The writing is excellent. The drawing is raw, efficient,
direct. It is honest, truthful, heartbreaking. There's no
manipulation, just the facts and the emotions felt. I can't say
enough good things about it. I think it's one of the best, not just
graphic novels, but books, period, that I have read in a long, long
time. People who know me know that I only like about 1/10th of 1%
of the graphic novels I see...." --Mimi Pond, author of Over Easy
"AMAZING, MOVING, BRILLIANT ... I am truly blown away... Honestly,
it has been a very long time since a piece of art slayed me. Thank
you." --Jill Ciment, author of Heroic Measures "Anyone coping with
such loss--meaning a vast readership--will find Hart's expression
of pain and heartache to be entirely understandable and entirely
appropriate. A bracing, deeply saddening journey into death and
loss whose wryly affirmative resolution, 'joy breaking through the
storm clouds, ' is nothing but hard won." --Kirkus Reviews "Rosalie
Lightning is a masterpiece--and a luminous tribute to a brief,
beautiful life." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A searing
read." --BostonGlobe.com
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