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Rosalie Lightning : a graphic memoir / by Tom Hart and Rosalie Lightning AND Leela Corman and the residents of New York City, Gainesville, Florida, New Mexico, AND Hawaii, as well as various singer-songwriters, film directors, actors, animators, comic artists, donors, lovers and friends.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250049940 (hardback)
- Physical Description: 261 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "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 Lighting is a graphic masterpiece chronicling a father's undying love"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Genre: | Graphic novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
Rosalie Lightning : A Graphic Memoir
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.
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