“Your family is in my thoughts,” is a thing you say. These parents now lived in this unthinkable.
When I heard about Rosalie, I remember I began rocking on my bed, keening. Like many new mothers, I was terrified by the vulnerability of the life born to me. My own daughter had just turned six months old, when theirs died. They were starting fresh, when this grief struck. They had only recently relocated with their small family to Gainesville, Florida, on an adventure to found a cartooning school (SAW). Tom Hart and Leela Corman’s daughter Rosalie Lightning died, suddenly and unexpectedly, before her second birthday. Their tragedy shocked the indie comics publishing community, particularly here in New York, where the couple had been fixtures as teaching artists. It's the kind of book that’s simultaneously almost too painful to read and yet impossible to put down.By Meg Lemke 2 GRIEF STRUCK: An Interview with TOM HART on ROSALIE LIGHTNING I know it’s only January, but I’m hard-pressed to imagine coming across a more emotionally honest and moving piece of art this year. The book recounts Rosalie's life and death, and their immediate aftermath. "The form of which Hart spoke became, ultimately, his new work, Rosalie Lightning: a Graphinc Memoir. 'There was a part of me,' says 'that realized I need to give my feelings some sort of form.' But Hart, the acclaimed author of the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels, wasn't given a choice, nor did he have any option but to try to arrive at some sort of understanding - tenuous as it may be - by turning what happened into art. It’s the kind of thing often too painful to consider, let alone experience. Their baby girl, Rosalie, beautiful and vibrant, like all little children, died unexpectedly - and without explanation - in 2011, three weeks before her second birthday. From Vulture: "Graphic novelist Tom Hart and his wife, Leela, lived through a horror story.
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