Rosalie Lightning

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 the aftermath of Rosalie s death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness, rebirth, and eventually finding hope again.Hart creatively portrays the solace he discovers in nature, philosophy, great works of literature, and art across all mediums in this expressively honest and loving tribute to his baby girl Rosalie Lightning is a graphic masterpiece chronicling a father s undying love. New Read Rosalie Lightning [ Author ] Tom Hart [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I have been sitting on writing a review of this book for a few days In part because all the early reviews call it brilliant and well, I feel sorry for the guy, because he lost his two year old daughter and it seems downright mean to say anything other than all the praise that has been heaped on this book Why turn critic on a guy in grief Tom Hart and his also comics artist wife Leela Corman had a magical time with Rosalie, their daughter, until she suddenly and unexpectedly died around the ag I have been sitting on writing a review of this book for a few days In part because all the early reviews call it brilliant and well, I feel sorry for the guy, because he lost his two year old daughter and it seems downright mean to say anything other than all the praise that has been heaped on this book...The grief in this book tore out my heart The tears were streaming down my face, but the emotion can never compare to what Tom Hart and his wife went through after the sudden and unexpected death of their daughter Rosalie The author reflects on his memories of his daughter during the last few weeks of her little life All the things she said, her drawings, the events she was apart ofall the accumulative retrospect that leads to crippling what if s, regret, and guilt I can t imagine my son n The grief in this book tore out my heart The tears were streaming down my face, but the emotion can never compare to what Tom Hart and his wife went through after the sudden and unexpected death of their daughter Rosalie The author reflects on his memories of his daughter during the last few weeks of her little life All the things she said, her drawings, the events she was apart ofall the accumulative retrospect that leads to crippling what if s, regret, and guilt I can t imagine my son no longer being in my life I don t think I could go on, seriously I can t even think about it But Tom Hart gathered all of his thoughts and experiences related to Rosalie s life and death and offered them to the masses His very personal jo...Until you experience it there is no way to really conceptualize what it feels like to lose a child Really there s no way to conceptualize losing a loved one period until you ve gone through it I think that s because of all the emotions we experience grief is the one that is truly the most personal and thus subjective No one grieves in exactly the same way I know there are supposed to be stages and we all cry of course but the way we experience and express loss and grief strikes me as unique Until you experience it there is no way to really conceptualize what it feels like to lose a child Really there s no way to conceptualize losing a loved one period until you ve gone through it I think that s because of all the emotions we experience grief is the one that is truly the most personal and thus subjective No one grieves in exactly the same way I know there are supposed to be stages and we all cry of course but the way we experience and express loss and grief strikes me as unique to the individual as a finger print Tom Hart, the author of this unique, bleak memoir, lost his beloved daughter Rosalie before she turned two years old One day h...I can t recommend this book enough A deep breath, a slow opening of the soul, a gift of love The final sequence is one of the most beautiful things I ve ever read I could feel my heart unfolding, unclenching.Tom Hart s been quietly making a mark in comics forthan twenty years from his beautiful, poetic mini comics in the 1990s to...Perder um filho deve ser das situa es mais desesperantes que um ser humano pode atravessar simplesmente contra natura, temos filhos, de um ponto de vista biol gico, para nos suceder, e quando isso n o acontece, o corte profundo, a dor surge por todos os poros, psicol gicos e f sicos Acredito ainda que isto tanto mais intenso, numa sociedade que elegeu ter apenas um, ou dois filh...In November 2011, Rosalie, the daughter of cartoonists Tom Hart and Leela Corman, died suddenly, before the age of two Rosalie Lightning is Hart s beautiful, elegiac tribute to her short life, an account of the months surrounding the terrible event In fragmented, poetic fashion, he sifts through the rubble of devastating grief, looking for answers, searching for solace, and finding little Your best memories are your biggest torments Eventually he reaches a sort of shaky peace and moves s In November 2011, Rosalie, the daughter of cartoonists Tom Hart and Leela Corman, died suddenly, before the age of two Rosalie Lightning is Hart s beautiful, elegiac tribute to her short life, an account of the months surrounding the terrible event In fragmented, poetic fashion, he sifts through the rubble of devastating grief, looking for answers, searching for solace, and finding little Your best memories are your biggest torments Ev...READ THIS BOOK Comics don t often move me That s a hell of a thing to say, coming from one who has staked a big chunk of his life and work on reading and talking up comics It s true, comics engage and amuse me, often spark my thinking, often delight my eye, and sometimes thrill me It s true that I enjoy reading them in ways that I find hard to put into words But relatively few comics have pulled belly laughs out of me, and even fewer, far fewer, have moved me to tears, or to the point whe READ THIS BOOK Comics don t often move me That s a hell of a thing to say, coming from one who has staked a big chunk of his life and work on reading and talking up comics It s true, comics engage and amuse me, often spark my thinking, often delight my eye, and sometimes thrill me It s true that I enjoy reading them in ways that I find hard to put into words But relatively few comics have pulled belly laughs out of me, and even fewer, far fewer, have moved me to tears, or to the point where I felt emotion cresting and overtaking me In that category I d put Spiegelman s MAUS, Brabner, Pekar, and Stack s OUR CANCER YEAR, Beto s PALOMAR, Xaime s LOCAS, Tyler s SOLDIER S HEART, Nilsen s DON T GO WHERE I CAN T FOLLOW, Schulz s PEANUTS, and precious few others Tom Hart s ROSALIE LIGHTNING is one of those ...I don t usually read graphic novels, but the description of Rosalie Lightning caught my attention, so here I am I can t believe how powerful this book is It is stunning Heartbreaking The text is incredible on its own, but coupled with the picturesI mean, there are no words to describe it Reading this book is pure feeling All you do is experience the author s pain along with him Some of my favorite parts The part where he talks to a pregnant woman right after his baby dies, and he desc I don t usually read graphic novels, but the description of Rosalie Lightning caught my attention, so here I am I ...I havean ARC of this to review for a great publication right now I am avoiding writing that review, because no review can do justice to how powerful this book is Suffice it to say, it is pretty amazing, and gut wrenching, and challenging, and a NECESSARY READ I wish it could hu...I expected to be emotionally destroyed by this book, but I did not expect to be so impressed by its formal qualities that halfway through I almost forgot to wallow in second hand grief and instead luxuriated in the beautiful simplicity and technical accomplishment of the visual choices Tom Hart s always been a cartoonist s cartoonist, a Zen trickster who can wring a surprising amount of meaning out of rhythm and scribble only they re not really two different things, they re scribble in rhythm, I expected to be emotionally destroyed by this book, but I did not expect to be so impressed by its formal qualities that halfway through I almost forgot to wallow in second hand grief and instead luxuriated in the beautiful simplicity and technical accomplishment of the visual choices Tom Hart s always been a cartoonist s cartoonist, a Zen trickster who can wring a surprising amount of meaning out of rhythm and scribble only they re not really two different things, they re scribble in rhythm, the foundational element on which all the rest of the comics medium has been built But the degree to which his graphic vocabulary has become infinitelysophisticated, even as he sticks to the simplified grammar of old school minicomics, caught me unprepared.The book is a memoir of a relatively short period ...

• English
• 27 June 2018
Tom Hart
• Hardcover
• 272 pages
• 1250049946
• Tom Hart
• Rosalie Lightning