Rewritten after reading about the possibilities of nuclear war re Russia and Iran in the new future. I don't think its a spoiler to say that they doesn't work! Only Finland has a public bunker 60' underground it will hold 6,000 people. Great big luxurious bunkers provisioned, with water makers, generators, stock piled gasoline, everything you could think of. Baseline price $10M, up to $100M according to specifications. The politicians, the wealthy and those with good connections, they have bunkers to go to. But you know, that is all that is really offered any of us ordinary people. Black humour and advice on how to use duct tape (of course, isn't duct tape used for everything?) and plastic bags and of course sit under the table to protect yourself. His graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, which portrayed his parents' 41-year marriage, won Best Illustrated Book in the 1999 British Book Awards. He was recognized as The Children's Author of the Year in 1993 by the British Book Awards.
However, Briggs continued to produce humour for children, in works such as the Unlucky Wally series and The Bear. The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984) was a scathing denunciation of the Falklands War.
This book was turned into a two-handed radio play with Peter Sallis in the male lead role, and subsequently an animated film, featuring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft. The topic was inspired after Briggs watched a Panorama documentary on nuclear contingency planning, and the dense format of the page was inspired by a Swiss publisher's miniature version of Father Christmas. When the Wind Blows (1982) confronted the trusting, optimistic Bloggs couple with the horror of nuclear war, and was praised in the British House of Commons for its timeliness and originality.
The Snowman became Briggs' best-known work when in 1982 it was made into an Oscar nominated animated cartoon, that has been shown every year since on British television.īriggs continued to work in a similar format, but with more adult content, in Gentleman Jim (1980), a sombre look at the working class trials of Jim and Hilda Bloggs, closely based on his parents. The Snowman (1978) was entirely wordless, and illustrated with only pencil crayons. His first three major works, Father Christmas, Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (both featuring a curmudgeonly Father Christmas who complains incessantly about the "blooming snow"), and Fungus the Bogeyman, were in the form of comics rather than the typical children's-book format of separate text and illustrations. He was best known for his story "The Snowman", which is shown every Christmas on British television in cartoon form and on the stage as a musical. Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who had achieved critical and popular success among adults and children.
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