Podcast appearances and mentions of rosalie lightning

On continue notre programme de l'été de ComicsDiscovery avec des comics indépendants qui méritent un peu plus de visibilité. Cette semaine, on vous parle d'une bande dessinée un peu particulière puisque c'est Rosalie Lightning, le récit autobiographique de Tom Hart qui nous raconte le deuil de sa jeune fille Rosalie. Une bande dessinée remplie d'émotions, qui ne vous laissera pas de marbre. Un album à retrouver chez L'association. On a la chance de recevoir Jade du Fabuleux podcast Codexes pour parler de cette bd avec nous. Rosalie Lightning de Tom Hart Petit avertissementSi vous êtes un habitué de l'émission, vous connaissez le kink de James pour les bandes dessinés autobiographique un peu déprimante. Il a demandé à Spades un comics dans cette veine pour la sélection du programme de l'été et il ne pouvait pas plus taper dans le mille qu'avec Rosalie Lightning. Petit Triggrer Warning, Rosalie Lightning parle du deuil d'une très jeune enfant et de comment on vit les premières semaines de cette perte. Le récit est sans filtre et brut. Si c'est un sujet qui est sensible pour vous, on ne vous conseille peut-être pas la lecture de cette bande dessinée. Qui est le papa ?Tom Hart est un auteur de bande dessinée et enseignant américain, connu pour ses œuvres profondément personnelles et émouvantes. Avant la publication de Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart avait déjà établi sa réputation dans le milieu de la bande dessinée indépendante avec des séries comme Hutch Owen, qui explore avec humour et satire les défis du quotidien et les luttes sociales. Il est également le fondateur du Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) à Gainesville, en Floride, une école dédiée à l'enseignement de la bande dessinée et de la narration visuelle. Un comics cathartiqueRosalie Lightning suit les 6 premières semaines de la vie de Tom Hart et sa femme Leela Corman alors que leur petite fille Rosalie de moins de deux ans vient de mourir de la mort subite du nourrisson. Au fil des pages de la bande dessinée, Tom Hart jette tout son flux de pensées, que ça soit les souvenirs des moments avec sa fille ou ses moments de dépressions intenses. Rosalie Lightning est un comics dur, représentant une forme de thérapie pour l'auteur. Il y décharge ses émotions pour tenter de faire le deuil de cette perte horrible. Peut-être que cette souffrance trouve écho chez d'autres personne apportant ainsi la sensation d'être compris. Ce qui en fait un livre assez compliqué à lire, car Tom Hart passe par des moments très dures et il les décrit dans la bande dessinée de façon crue et sans fioritures. Récit trop intimiste ou témoignage ?Comme on a pu se poser la question lorsque nous avons discusté de It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth de Zoe Thorogood qui décrivait, elle aussi, sa dépression de manière aussi intime. Est-ce qu'on ne passe pas un peu la porte du voyeurisme à être aussi plongé dans la psyché d'un auteur ? Je pense que malgré tout le témoignage de quelqu'un qui vit le deuil de son enfant et surtout d'une manière aussi abrupte est intéressant. Sans le vivre directement, on ne peut pas avoir idée d'à quel point on peut être affecté par cette perte et Rosalie Lightning nous permet de voir et d'approcher un peu l'état d'esprit de ce que peut ressentir un parent qui perd son enfant. On a encore eu la chance de recevoir en invitée Jade du podcast Codexes, n'hésitez pas à aller découvrir le podcast qu'elle tient avec Eve où elles font le tour de leurs personnages féminins préférés de la pop culture.Retrouvez tous les liens pour les découvrir sur leurs linktree : https://linktr.ee/codexespod Si vous avez aimé Rosalie Lightning et que vous voulez découvrir d'autres comics.Nous vous conseillons l'écoute de ces épisodes de ComicsDiscovery :ComicsDiscovery vacances 04 The Crow https://jamesetfaye.fr/comicsdiscovery-vacances-04-the-crow/ComicsDiscovery S07E25 : Come home, indio https://jamesetfaye.fr/comicsdiscovery-s07e25-come-home-indio/BdDiscovery S01E04 : Journal https://jamesetfaye.fr/bddiscovery-s01e04-journal/ Le mot de la finComme toujours, nous vous invitons à venir partager votre avis avec nous, que vous soyez d'accord ou non, cela nous fait toujours plaisir d'échanger avec vous. 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This week Jess and I continued our discussion of PITCHING, and about feeling weird and lousy and under pressure and low boundary and high maintenance and under the gun and everything else!Tune in next week to for Episode 8 of The Terrible Anvil: Monetizing Every Moment of Waking Existence on Instagram (What Could Go Wrong?) I believe a transcript will be posted with this!?Cheers' y'allHere's some random thoughts we hitWe talked about both creators and publishers creating realistic expectations and boundaries--if a publisher doesn't give you a deadline, don't wait for them to hand you one! You might need to build you own. I thought having a looming book deal would give me the accountability to stay on track, and while it sort of did, it mostly stressed me out. I'm so grateful I was able to publish a beautiful book, but it was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be (see those pesky "feelings" Cara Gormally mentioned above.)Tom Hart talked about his second-book slump where he tasked himself with outlining a sequel to his beautiful graphic memoir, Rosalie Lightning. At the end of his twenty-some page outline, Tom didn't want to make that book! It ended up becoming the seed for his book The Art of the Graphic Memoir.Tom said a paraphrase of a great quote, whose origins are unknown to me:"How to get a book deal? First get famous!"I chimed in: "“If I'm not going to make any money I might as well make comics!""Later on the call Tom Hart and I tried to speak to this great idea from Adrean Clark :"I wonder if it's possible to talk about transforming our work -- not everything has to be something to "go big or go home" on. An idea can be a self-published zine, can be a comic feature in a newspaper, and so on. Thinking about the full range of pitches, whether to pitch to ourselves or to others. Does that make sense?"Tom Hart read this quote I sent him from an article, via J.F. Martel:I also added: "spend time with your own work for a long time before launching it from the (marketing) cannon!"We remembered the awesome Pro Call with Laura Gao, you can see the recording over here! Their process and the timeline for their book deal (Messy Roots) was super-duper fast and a ton of work all at once after their comic went viral. (thanks Jim for the Pro Call link!!!)Tom Hart mentioned the art critic Heidi MacDonald's podcast interview with comics creator Box Brown. Box said: "I feel stupid for following my dreams!" Re: capitalism can kinda make things feel cruddy. Tom noted that  "There are a lot of reasons to feel bad while making art. Most of those are expectations of results, expectations, rewards"He noted the value of self publishing and Jim added: "I agree with Tom! I just ordered 100 of my books from Lulu. And that was after a couple of proofing cycles."I asked Tom is art-making might be a form of mental illness and he said, "Art is not a mental illness but a sane response to an insane world."Leonie Sharrock asked:Question re 'form' … what happens when you want to go hybrid? how do we pitch hybrid works?Tom Hart said:Leonie, those are more difficult but slowly people catch on… 

Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (Rose Metal Press, 2023). The book brings together 28 of today's most innovative creators of poetry comics, graphic narratives, and image-text hybrids. With original craft essays, corresponding exercises, and full-color examples of their work, each contributor offers reflection and instruction informed by their own methods and processes. It's a beautiful and vibrant book that invites writers, artists, and would-be creators into a feast of play and possibility. Kelcey Ervick is the author of the graphic memoir, The Keeper and other books. Her comics have been published widely, including in The Washington Post, The Believer, and Lit Hub, and two featured comics series of hers have appeared in The Rumpus. She is a professor of English at Indiana University South Bend, where she teaches creative writing, comics, and literary collage. Tom Hart is the author/artist of The New York Times #1 bestselling graphic memoir Rosalie Lightning and of The Art of the Graphic Memoir. He is the executive director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, an organization and school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida. Before founding SAW, Tom was a core instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 10 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (Rose Metal Press, 2023). The book brings together 28 of today's most innovative creators of poetry comics, graphic narratives, and image-text hybrids. With original craft essays, corresponding exercises, and full-color examples of their work, each contributor offers reflection and instruction informed by their own methods and processes. It's a beautiful and vibrant book that invites writers, artists, and would-be creators into a feast of play and possibility. Kelcey Ervick is the author of the graphic memoir, The Keeper and other books. Her comics have been published widely, including in The Washington Post, The Believer, and Lit Hub, and two featured comics series of hers have appeared in The Rumpus. She is a professor of English at Indiana University South Bend, where she teaches creative writing, comics, and literary collage. Tom Hart is the author/artist of The New York Times #1 bestselling graphic memoir Rosalie Lightning and of The Art of the Graphic Memoir. He is the executive director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, an organization and school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida. Before founding SAW, Tom was a core instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 10 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (Rose Metal Press, 2023). The book brings together 28 of today's most innovative creators of poetry comics, graphic narratives, and image-text hybrids. With original craft essays, corresponding exercises, and full-color examples of their work, each contributor offers reflection and instruction informed by their own methods and processes. It's a beautiful and vibrant book that invites writers, artists, and would-be creators into a feast of play and possibility. Kelcey Ervick is the author of the graphic memoir, The Keeper and other books. Her comics have been published widely, including in The Washington Post, The Believer, and Lit Hub, and two featured comics series of hers have appeared in The Rumpus. She is a professor of English at Indiana University South Bend, where she teaches creative writing, comics, and literary collage. Tom Hart is the author/artist of The New York Times #1 bestselling graphic memoir Rosalie Lightning and of The Art of the Graphic Memoir. He is the executive director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, an organization and school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida. Before founding SAW, Tom was a core instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 10 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Tom Hart is a cartoonist, and he's the founder and executive director of a comics school, The Sequential Artists Workshop. His 2016 memoir, Rosalie Lightning, debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Tom offers amazing, valuable insights about the path to creative career success—and that what “success” looks like must be self-defined, always. For Tom, that means freedom is number one. When he has creative autonomy, he's happy. Tom spoke about the invisible bargains we make to have a life lived in alignment with our ideals and creative goals. He asked: What are we willing to live with? How much fear? How much shame? How much financial precarity? We talked about why “shame” comes into it, and how to get over it. And we talked about why financial precarity isn't a prerequisite for creative autonomy and freedom. To get that message out, we all need to be talking more openly and clearly about what's happening behind closed doors, in creatives' lives. More from the episode… “Success is…can I make things that mean something to me and can I help people make things that mean something to them and that isn't just feeding a commercial engine?” – Why Tom believes success is more than just churning out work. How has the desire to be seen impacted Tom's creative process? We discuss Tom's memoir, Rosalie Lightning, and how his unique creative practice gave him the tools to process grief. For years, Tom believed he needed multiple sources of income. Why has he decided to focus his revenue stream? Tom reflects on an encounter that helped him let go of financial shame: “If a lawyer is saying the same thing I'm saying, then I just might as well stay an artist.” “Nobody was happy and everybody worked all the time…and that's the hole I'm always trying to plug.” – To what extend does scarcity fuel artistic ambition? Tom describes the awakening that inspired him to found the Sequential Artists Workshop: “Some people like my books, but they're not going to pay the bills. There are other creative things I can do that can pay the bills.” Sometimes, pursing your creative vision is a matter of bargaining: “I didn't realize that having a high-paying job in advertising doing work for Sony and McDonald's was making a living from your art.” Why is money a taboo conversation, even between friends, and what's the benefit of speaking up? Tom reminds us: “Nothing is scary about art.” More from Tom Hart: Tom Hart is a cartoonist and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school and arts organization in Gainesville, Florida. He was a core instructor at New York City's School of Visual Arts for 10 years, teaching cartooning to undergraduates, working adults and teens alike. His 2016 memoir, Rosalie Lightning debuted at #1 on the NY Times Bestseller List and has been featured on many end of year Best-Of lists. He is the creator of the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books, and has been nominated for all the major industry awards. He was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in the Comics Journal and other comix publications. He has been called “One of the great underrated cartoonists of our time” by Eddie Campbell and “One of my favorite cartoonists of the decade” by Scott McCloud. His daily Hutch Owen comic strip ran for 2 years in newspapers in New York and Boston, and his strip “Ali's House”, co-created with Margo Dabaie was picked up by King Features Syndicate. Connect with Tom Hart Tom Hart on Twitter https://www.instagram.com/hutchowen/ https://www.facebook.com/hutchowen http://www.tomhart.net/ Additional Links The Sequential Artists Workshop on Twitter https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/ https://www.instagram.com/comicsworkshop/ https://www.facebook.com/sequentialartistsworkshopThe Autonomous Creative is brought to you by Authentic Visibility: marketing for creatives who (think they) hate marketing. Learn more here!

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Alex rejoins Joshua and Joe to run down our roughly 14 favorite books and cartoonists of the 2010s: Eleanor Davis, Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart, Anders Nilsen, John Hanciewicz, Digger by Ursula Vernon, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris, Marion Fayolle, Frank Santoro, Joe Sacco, the comics journalism of The Nib, My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf, Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, and Marcelo D'Salete.

Time Codes: 00:01:21 - Introduction 00:03:12 - Setup of interview 00:04:32 - Interview with Tom Hart 01:32:14 - Wrap up 01:33:38 - Contact us On this interview episode, Sterg and Derek are excited to have Tom Hart back to discuss his new book, The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life(St. Martin's Griffin). Tom was on the podcast not quite three years agoto discuss his new memoir at the time Rosalie Lightning, but this time he's returned to talk not so much about story content, but about the processof creating a graphic memoir. As he discusses with the Two Guys, Tom's latest book is more instructional or how-to, covering the necessary steps in planning for, organizing, structuring, visualizing, and finalizing a memoir through the comics medium. In addition, he points out that the very project of writing and illustrating one's own life story isn't only about sharing a story with readers, but perhaps just as important, using the very process of creation as a way of revisiting, revisualizing, and even coming to terms with important life moments. Along the way Derek and Sterg talk with Tom about his other instructional texts, such as How to Say Everythingand The Sequential Artists Workshop Guide to Creating Professional Comic Strips, his vast knowledge of the comics memoir genre, his new comic-strip project B. Is Dying, and his experiences teaching at and directing SAW, the Sequential Artists Workshopin Gainesville, FL.  

Tom Hart is a cartoonist and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school and arts organization in Gainesville, Florida. He is also the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, Rosalie Lightning, a book about the loss of his daughter. Rosalie Lightning has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese, and was featured on many best of 2016 lists, and nominated for two Eisner Awards. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/tomhart In this episode, Tom discusses: -His early love of Peanuts and the exuberance, confusion and anger that Charles Shultz was able to convey through his characters. -His artistic educational journey. -How Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics changed the way he thought about approaching comics. -How he was able to continue working on comics through his initial artistic shortcomings. -Following your instincts. -His own push towards creating comic strips. -Dealing with adversity, setbacks and failures in an extremely difficult and frustrating business. -His book How to Say Everything and how it remained 90% finished for nearly a decade. -How he got past the roadblock of wanting to say everything by realizing that you have to start by saying something. -Getting used to putting things behind you and moving forward. -How SAW started and what its students accomplish. -Tricking your inner critic into thinking that what you’re doing really isn’t that important. Tom's Final Push will remind you that art can simply be something that you do.   Quotes: “In my first year of art school I think I made two pages of comics.  I just didn’t get it.” “You’re never going to say everything.  So just say something.  Say the next thing.” “We’ve exalted art in some ways, but it can be simply something that you do.” Links mentioned: Sequential Artists Workshop   SAW online courses   Free download of How To Say Everything   The next STORYTELLING FLOW Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud Julie Doucet Connect with Tom: Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter Join the discussion in the Facebook group!

Shit gets a little dark this month, we're talking about the death of a child, the aids epidemic, revolution and civil war, and the suicide of a closeted dad.  We’re getting personal, as we hold on for a month of autobiographical comics. We start our month of autobiographical comics with Rosalie Lightning.  A heartbreaking tale of love and loss as author Tom Hart deals with the death of his young daughter. Next week is more “Real World” issues, as we read Pedro and Me.  Written by Judd Winick from Real World season 3, its the story of Judd’s friendship with fellow housemate Pedro, and Pedro’s fight, and eventual death of AIDS. 

Welcome to the third episode of the Michigan State University Comic Art and Graphic Novel Podcast.  Below you'll find show notes and links mentioned in this episode. MSU Comics Forum website: comicsforum.msu.edu James Sturm: www.cartoonstudies.org/index.php/james-sturm  Center for Cartoon Studies: www.cartoonstudies.org Charles Hatfield: https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Hatfield/e/B001K8FN9Y/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1  MSU Comics Forum direct link to the 2017 Artist Alley Submission: comicsforum.msu.edu/?p=611 MSU Comics Forum direct link to the 2017 Academic Panel Discussion Call for Papers: comicsforum.msu.edu/?p=607 MSU Special Collections Library: www.lib.msu.edu/spc Tom Hart's personal website: www.tomhart.net Rosalie Lightning: www.tomhart.net/rosalie.html MSU Department of Art, Art History & Design website: art.msu.edu MSU Comic Art and Graphic Novel Podcast Twitter page: twitter.com/MSUComicsCast MSU Comic Art and Graphic Novel Podcast FaceBook page: facebook.com/MSUComicsCast Contact us via our email address: MSUComicsCast[at]gmail.com

Issue #240: Bobby's Farewell and Dark Knight: A True Batman Story In honor of Bobby's retirement, the crew spends this week doing what they do best: TALKING COMICS!!! Aside from the stand-out new releases (Wonder Woman!!!), the crew takes a deep dive into two incredibly effecting graphic novels: Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart and Dark Night: A True Batman Story by Paul Dini & Eduardo Risso. Also, Mara, Bob, Steve, and Joey say goodbye to Bobby while he takes a moment to reflect on 5 years as host of the Talking Comics podcast "Be true to yourself... Be reasonable, Be informed, Be Intelligent, and you will rise so much farther and higher and more quickly than you would if you were just trying to be everybody else." - Bobby The Comic Book Podcast is brought to you by Talking Comics (www.talkingcomicbooks.com) The podcast is hosted by Editor-in-Chief Bobby Shortle (Fanboy Remix, Doctor Whocast), Steve Seigh (JoBlo.com contributor), Bob Reyer, Dr. Mara Wood, and Joey Braccino who weekly dissect the releases and give you, the consumer, a simple Roman yay or nay regarding them. Our Twitter handle is @TalkingComics and you can email us at podcast@talkingcomicbooks.com.

Rosalie Lightning is one of this year’s most difficult and most important books. It’s the story of a parent grieving the death of his young daughter the best way he knows how — through making a comic. Tom Hart taught the form for a decade at Manhattan’s school of Visual Arts before opening The Sequential Artists Workshop, a Gainesville-based school devoted solely to the art of comics making, where he serves as Executive Director. Hart has been producing his own work in earnest since 1994, when Hutch Owen's Working Hard earned him a Xeric Foundation grant for self-publishing. Over the years, the titular Wall Street-battling protestor has earned the cartoonist numerous industry awards and landed a daily strip in Metro newspapers. His new book i easily his most potent and highest profile, having landed the top spot on The New York Times’ best selling graphic novel list. As with the book, this conversation is not an easy one, but it’s one well worth having.

An interview with Tom Hart, author of Rosalie Lightning, a graphic memoir about the loss of his daughter and the profound grief that followed. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/1Tg0HTz

We devote this entire episode to discussing Tom Hart's new book, Rosalie Lightning.

Gene and Derek start off the week presenting a powerful interview with Tom Hart. His new book, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir, is being released this week from St. Martin's Press, and it's an honest and heartrending work. It chronicles the days following the unexpected death of Tom's daughter, Rosalie, as he and his wife anguished over the loss and tried to make sense of what had happened. In addition to their grief and feelings of emptiness, they also had to continue struggling with the frustrations of the mundane, such as trying to sell their apartment in New York. It's a story about putting the pieces of your life back together, reflected in large part through the structure of Tom's narrative. Gene notes the images that bind the scenes together, such as the visual prominence of circles, and Derek believes the Rosalie Lightning reads much like poetry with its associative, non-linear linking of emotions and memories. The guys also use the opportunity to talk with Tom about his other work, such as his Hutch Owen comics and his educational efforts. In fact, they talk a good deal about the Sequential Artists Workshop that Tom founded in 2012 in Gainesville, Florida, as well as the online course he offers on graphic memoir writing...an endeavor that largely grew out of his own experiences documenting his loss. As the guys point out in this episode, Rosalie Lightning an important new book from Tom, one that is sure to resonate beyond the comics and graphic novels community of readers.

This week on The Comics Alternative, Derek and Gene put on their happy faces to review three titles concerned with the positive and uplifting sides of life. First, they go through Loïc Dauvillier and Marc Lizano's Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust (First Second), a new graphic novel focusing on genocide. A translation of the 2012 French album, L'enfant cachée, this is the story of a survivor telling her young granddaughter the traumas she underwent in 1940s France. Perhaps even more significantly, it's a story about hiding: hiding from terror, hiding who you are, hiding your experiences, and hiding from your family. Among other facets of the book, the guys focus on the possible audience assumptions with this story, how it's crafted for younger readers while at the same time having an all-age appeal. Next, they turn to Genesis (Image Comics), the new one-shot from Nathan Edmondson and Alison Sampson. Gene is uncertain about the issue, feeling that the story reaches for a deeper significance that it never really earns. Derek is a little more positive, arguing that Sampson's intriguing (and at times, surreal) art goes a long way in carrying the weight of this quasi-parable. The story has everything to do with death and destruction…much like Hidden, and much like the next title that the Two Guys review. The latest issue of World War 3 Illustrated (distributed through Top Shelf Productions), #45, is described by editors Peter Kuper and Scott Cunningham as “the death issue.” All of the 31 contributions to this anthology have something to do with death, whether it be the passing of a family member, the “death” of an idea or identity, coming to terms with the end of life, or the presence of death in art and literature. As Derek and Gene discuss, some of the most moving, and most notable, pieces in this latest issue of World War 3 Illustrated include comics by Kuper, Rosalie Lightning and Tom Hart, Hayley Gold, Seth Tobocman, Sandy Jimenez, and Kevin C. Pyle. The tone of the comics discussed in this episode may be dark or heavy, but the stories are all fascinatingly told and well worth reading.

Sequential Artists Workshop Co-founder, Tom Hart, joined me to talk about the school, his comics and more. Tom’s a great thinker and talker on comics. His recent work, Rosalie Lightning, is a power comic of Tom’s, processing the sudden passing … Continue reading →