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The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life

Tom Hart · 2018

A practical instructional guide by acclaimed cartoonist Tom Hart on creating graphic memoirs, drawing from his experience creating Rosalie Lightning after his daughter's death. The book combines theoretical frameworks, master examples, and step-by-step exercises to help readers develop their own autobiographical comics.

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What this book knows

Grief becomes a graphic memoir when you draw your way through loss, panel by panel, toward meaning.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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grief

until 2011, when my daughter died suddenly just shy of her second birthday. The shock of this caused me to bury myself in the actions I knew best: writing and drawing.
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I knew I had to get from my feelings about her to she and I sharing the same space—an ethereal or spiritual space. I had to start with her, not me.
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The Present: The 6 weeks from Rosalie's death in November 2011 to January 1, 2012 … Rosalie lived only 10 weeks there, and seemed enormously happy.
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calling

the act of creating my book reminded me that in my case, the writing comes first … drawing became a way to revisit the experience while applying my more reflective and alert brain to it.
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self-and-identity

Starting and working is scary! We think: What if I'm not good enough? What if my story is dumb? These internal critics are our biggest enemies to actually working on our book.
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The realization in the last panel—'People can make me do anything'—is a strong one I'd like to explore later.
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