#grief comics

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Welcome to my life as personal representative of my parents’ estate! BTW the ghost cat’s name is Henry (He’s buried in the backyard)

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Going through your parents' computer files is... a chore

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conversations w/ friends & family

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I had the incredible opportunity to meet Tom Hart at SPX last month. I had read about his daughters' death sometime this year and, shortly after, I bought Daddy Lightning. I didn't know he ran the Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville until I went to the workshop he ran at SPX. Being a Florida native, I was curious as to why he would move to Gainesville and start an comic artists workshop. I always really liked Gainesville, it being the first north FL town I visited in my adult years. But if I had known about SAW before I moved to New Orleans, I would've moved to Gainesville to attend the school instead.

It's a funny thing though. In the workshop I drew a lightning bolt as a character. It was a misogynist lightning bolt VS a hug monster shaped like a cloud. I wasn't really thinking about it, it's just an easy thing to draw. I also have a lightning bolt tattoo on my leg. I also live with two other people that have lightning bolts tattooed on them. I have a connection with lightning bolts obv. Also, my closest aunt's name is Rosalie.

I should go to this school. Tom Hart writes and draws the kind of honest art that I can hear and feel inside me trying to explode out of my hands. I would be more than honored to learn from him. Question is, WHEN?

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By Kate Beaton

This is beautiful. I find it interesting how we can feel the loss of someone in one of our communities even though we may not be close with them. We might not have spoken more than 2 words to them but we can still feel a weight of that loss.