I still say a new book needs to be done with ALL the train people you have memorialized.
There is one already. It's the newest one. It's called "Does the Afterlife Have Skittles?"
ref: Skittles
And it is excellent!
Just got my copy this week & tore through it....I'll hafta' reread next week.
Thank-You Mr. Bell!
I'm just now catching up on the last month of Candorville and this was amazing. The rolled up newspaper in the with his "grandson's" comic was fantastic. It clearly shows the pride people take in their families accomplishments and how much he loved you. Well done
I know Bell is a quite common last name, but speaking of our ancestors, wonder if you had any from St. Louis, by way of Mississippi? Here in St. Louis, we have a street named for James "Cool Papa" Bell, thought possibly to be the fastest runner ever to play the game of baseball! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=534135606...
I don't know, my grandpa never mentioned him. We were mostly from Marshall, TX. But anything's possible.
Oh!
Sorry, I've got to say some more (I deal with things in a verbal way). Perhaps I've missed it, but no one seems to have commented -- at least directly -- on the manner in which you, Darrin Bell, were able to capture your dear Grandpa Roscoe's visage in the cartoon panels. I could recognize him at once, but there was more than the outline of his facial features. Nobility, honor, pride, satisfaction, joy, intelligence, perseverance -- all there, with just a few careful strokes of your pens and inks.
[Sorry - some typos in my comment submitted a few minutes ago -- and a missing last line.]
Closure is a great sentiment, but let's all agree losses like these never "close". We would be mindless, insensitive, and zombie-like if Grandpa Roscoe's life could be tucked away in a file cabinet or shut up behind a basement door. No, I hope, Mr. Darrin Bell, that all of this stays always open, and why should it not? It’s you, of course, and you're not closing, are you? I've only known Grandpa a few weeks, and he's already an indelible part of me. This last set of panels was a fitting, creative, and beautiful end to the story -- SO FAR. "Grandpa never ends", right?
Well... I think you've captured my feelings exactly. A few have said they're making progress in letting him go, to which I always reply "why?" Just because his body's no longer here, that doesn't mean that what he was to us has to disappear too. I knew him very well. I knew him well enough to know what he WOULD say about pretty much anything I were to ask him or say to him. I knew him well enough to know what advice he would give me in pretty much any situation. And I believe we each have a soul that just lives in a body for a few decades before being set free by the body's death and I believe I'll be seeing him again someday. So I don't ever have to feel as if Grandpa's really gone. As long as I think about him and apply what he taught me to the rest of my life, he'll always be with me.
It's important to eventually try and let go of the pain, but we don't ever have to let go of the people.
Astounding strip! Thank you!
Thank you, everyone! I can't tell you how much it's helped to read each one of your comments (here and at GoComics, and through e-Mail, Twitter and Facebook), and know that Grandpa's getting the respect and appreciation he's always deserved. He had it in life, and he's got it in death. Thanks again.
Really beautiful and meaningful. Thank you! God bless your grandfather.
Being the caregiver during the end-of-life stage is such a hard job. I'm sure you accomplished it with as much grace and love as your art displayed this past week. He is STILL proud of you, Mr. Bell. Thank you for sharing this wonderful man with us.
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I still say a new book needs to be done with ALL the train people you have memorialized.
There is one already. It's the newest one. It's called "Does the Afterlife Have Skittles?"
ref: Skittles
And it is excellent!
Just got my copy this week & tore through it....I'll hafta' reread next week.
Thank-You Mr. Bell!
I'm just now catching up on the last month of Candorville and this was amazing. The rolled up newspaper in the with his "grandson's" comic was fantastic. It clearly shows the pride people take in their families accomplishments and how much he loved you. Well done
I know Bell is a quite common last name, but speaking of our ancestors, wonder if you had any from St. Louis, by way of Mississippi? Here in St. Louis, we have a street named for James "Cool Papa" Bell, thought possibly to be the fastest runner ever to play the game of baseball! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=534135606...
I don't know, my grandpa never mentioned him. We were mostly from Marshall, TX. But anything's possible.
Oh!
Sorry, I've got to say some more (I deal with things in a verbal way). Perhaps I've missed it, but no one seems to have commented -- at least directly -- on the manner in which you, Darrin Bell, were able to capture your dear Grandpa Roscoe's visage in the cartoon panels. I could recognize him at once, but there was more than the outline of his facial features. Nobility, honor, pride, satisfaction, joy, intelligence, perseverance -- all there, with just a few careful strokes of your pens and inks.
[Sorry - some typos in my comment submitted a few minutes ago -- and a missing last line.]
Closure is a great sentiment, but let's all agree losses like these never "close". We would be mindless, insensitive, and zombie-like if Grandpa Roscoe's life could be tucked away in a file cabinet or shut up behind a basement door. No, I hope, Mr. Darrin Bell, that all of this stays always open, and why should it not? It’s you, of course, and you're not closing, are you? I've only known Grandpa a few weeks, and he's already an indelible part of me. This last set of panels was a fitting, creative, and beautiful end to the story -- SO FAR. "Grandpa never ends", right?
Well... I think you've captured my feelings exactly. A few have said they're making progress in letting him go, to which I always reply "why?" Just because his body's no longer here, that doesn't mean that what he was to us has to disappear too. I knew him very well. I knew him well enough to know what he WOULD say about pretty much anything I were to ask him or say to him. I knew him well enough to know what advice he would give me in pretty much any situation. And I believe we each have a soul that just lives in a body for a few decades before being set free by the body's death and I believe I'll be seeing him again someday. So I don't ever have to feel as if Grandpa's really gone. As long as I think about him and apply what he taught me to the rest of my life, he'll always be with me.
It's important to eventually try and let go of the pain, but we don't ever have to let go of the people.
Astounding strip! Thank you!
Thank you, everyone! I can't tell you how much it's helped to read each one of your comments (here and at GoComics, and through e-Mail, Twitter and Facebook), and know that Grandpa's getting the respect and appreciation he's always deserved. He had it in life, and he's got it in death. Thanks again.
Really beautiful and meaningful. Thank you! God bless your grandfather.
Being the caregiver during the end-of-life stage is such a hard job. I'm sure you accomplished it with as much grace and love as your art displayed this past week. He is STILL proud of you, Mr. Bell. Thank you for sharing this wonderful man with us.