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RIP Raymond Briggs

Algarveaddick
Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
edited August 2022 in Not Sports Related
The writer and illustrator has passed away aged 88. What a magical world he created, as well as heart rending stuff like Ethel and Ernest. A friend of mine produced a few of the film versions of his stuff, and loved him dearly. 

RIP Raymond. 

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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Very sad ... loved his stuff RIP
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,665
    RIP Raymond.
  • DagenhamAddick
    DagenhamAddick Posts: 468
    Yep I worked for TV Cartoons in the 80’s and early 90’s met him numerous times. Lovely man. The Snowman is simply out of this world. RIP. 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Very sad news. What a lot of joy his books brought to so many of us as children. 

    RIP
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    RIP
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    So sad - the Snowman was a class above.
    RIP
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    I urge anyone who hadn't seen the short film "When the wind blows" to watch it. Based on his book its about a nuclear holocaust & set in the 80's. Male character voiced by Sir John Mills. 

    RIP.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    A great creative artist and man.
    RIP
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,321
    He taught my wife before he was famous. She’s gutted. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Great artist.  RIP
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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    RIP.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    RIP Fungus the Bogeyman was a classic, one of my faves as a kid
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,076
    RIP. Loved Ethel & Ernest.
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,538
    Fungus the Bogeyman, Father Christmas & The Snowman - all classics from my childhood, feel like part of my childhood died as well today, very sad - getting old is rubbish! 

    RIP 
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    His Father Christmas was one of my childhood staples. Blooming rain, blooming fog....

    RIP
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,277
    golfaddick said:
    I urge anyone who hadn't seen the short film "When the wind blows" to watch it. Based on his book its about a nuclear holocaust & set in the 80's. Male character voiced by Sir John Mills. 

    RIP.
    Blimey Golfie, you're really leaning into your miserablist reputation there. It's powerful, but I'd probably go with something a bit more cheerful as a first introduction to his work. Although one of my friends did mention yesterday being introduced to it by her husband, who'd found it shelved in the kids' section of their local library, presumably because it was by the author of The Snowman. That's a tactical error akin to the time the BBC ( I think it was ) scheduled Watership Down on Easter Sunday afternoon, and got loads of complaints from parents who sat their kids down to watch a cute bunny film after lunch.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    A great talent..leaves behind a great body of work..his words and his illustrations somehow rose above the sublime when matched together..I watched Ethel and Ernest again last night and I can never hold back a tear RIP 

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