Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Raymond Briggs" video.

  1. Oh my goodness, did he just die?? ☚ī¸ Raymond Briggs? (So many talented people dying right now: Issey Miyake, Olivia Newton John, that other Aussie singer... ) I loved Briggs too, as a kid/teen in the 1980s! 🙂👍 Fungus the Bogeyman, the Snowman of course, Father Christmas (😂!), and When The Wind Blows, the graphic novel of which was in my secondary school library in the early 1980s, along with its prequel, Gentleman Jim. But, when, a couple of years down the line, I heard they had made a movie of it, and I wanted to see it, I couldn't, because not a single cinema in Cornwall would show it! ☚ī¸ Probably because they were all owned by Tories, giving "It's not commercial enough" as a justification. (Really meaning "Too pro-CND." 😏) Young me did actually discuss this over the phone with one of these proprietors, and he was very sniffy, as I recall! 👎 So, I didn't get to see it until years later, on video or on TV, I can't remember which. Yes: I believe that Raymond Briggs really showed what the illustrated/comic strip format of literature was capable of. Funnily enough though, I have never heard any "comix fans" praising him to the skies! Probably because a) he was published by proper book publishers, and b) he wrote unashamedly for children - only his books were appreciated by adults too! In my view, Briggs was a LOT more talented than those two comic book wazzocks Alan Moore, and Frank Miller, to name but a few, if you'll pardon the expression! 😏
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