![]() It combined his peerless artistic and literary skills with a bleak, but never gratuitously unpleasant, narrative that was a world away from the big-hearted optimism of Aled Jones singing Walking In The Air. Yet it was his follow-up book, and later film, When The Wind Blows, that may be Briggs’s finest work. So there’s no point avoiding it.”Īs the world mourns the death of one of the great imaginative storytellers of the 20th and 21st centuries, most of the headlines have inevitably singled out The Snowman as Briggs’s best-known achievement. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things – what are they called? – hamsters: all die like flies. Children have got to face death sooner or later. ![]() He once said: “I don’t believe in happy endings. ![]() ![]() ![]() While generations of children were exhilarated by his seminal book – and subsequent animated film – The Snowman, Briggs himself eschewed sunny optimism for a more realistic, even pessimistic view of the world. Raymond Briggs, who has died aged 88, was, by his own admission, something of a curmudgeon. ![]()
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