When the Cheshire emerges...

I was a bit late in finding out about the death of Roger Ebert yesterday... I went to bed last night in a really sad state.

The influence of Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, wasn't felt in Australia in the same way as him homeland of the United States or elsewhere (the wonderful Margaret and David of At The Movies fill that spot).

But that didn't matter. His name was enough. His name was synonymous with greatness. Anyone who knows film knows Roger Ebert. Anyone wanting to be a critic held his view with in the highest regard. And it is the world that will rightfully mourn him.

Read the Sun-Times obituary. And see the reactions from the public below. I was that intrigued by the reactions that I created a Storify account to collate some of them: