“You’re not capable of sorting anything out so soon after, so mostly it was to occupy myself.” The work helped him keep track of his emotions. “As soon as she died, I wrote constantly,” he recalls. Hart immediately began making notes, not even certain why. There was no warning, and no obvious cause, which made her death all the more shocking and painful. She was taken to the hospital, where her parents made the decision to take her off a ventilator. Hart and Corman found Rosalie unresponsive one morning, after what had seemed a typical night. Rosalie Lightning is a reminder of a different time.īy his own admission, Hart has spent three years retelling the worst two months of his life, a period that began in November 2011. It was a hot morning in Australia, and Hart was at a friend’s house a dog had just stolen a stuffed monkey from Molly Rose, his second daughter, and life, he said, was good and normal. But when I spoke with him via Skype, he was in Sydney, after teaching an intensive two-week course on cartooning on a small island off the coast of Tasmania. When he isn’t making comics, Hart runs the Sequential Arts Workshop (SAW) comics school in Gainesville, Fla. Rosalie’s singular quirks-a love of acorns, her special vocabulary, her enjoyment of a comic by the European duo Metaphrog-are beautifully captured, making her an individual in addition to a symbol of love and loss. It’s an unsparing, brutally painful memoir that conveys the tragedy as well as the spirit of a young child cut off so quickly.
Its heartrending pages recount the sudden death of Rosalie, Hart’s two-year-old daughter in 2011 and the grieving process for him and his wife, acclaimed cartoonist Leela Corman ( Unterzakhn). 2016), the extraordinary new graphic novel by Tom Hart. What do you do when your child dies? That’s the anguishing question behind Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir (St.
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