Tag Archive | "Raymond Briggs"

TV: Tonights viewing – Raymond Briggs and The Snowman….

Sunday, December 30, 2012

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Tonight – 30th December – 6:05pm – Channel 4: How the Snowman came back to life. The Snowman is one of the most watched and loved British animation films of all time. Appealing to children and parents alike it has become one of the main fixtures in the Christmas schedules. Yet Raymond Briggs, the unique [...]

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British Comic Awards: Hall Of Fame Recipient 2012 – Raymond Briggs

Monday, November 26, 2012

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(Photograph by Jonathan Brady from thetimes.co.uk.) Over at the British Comic Awards website, Adam Cadwell has posted a heartfelt tribute to the very first Hall of Fame recipient Raymond Briggs. Well worth a read over at the BCA website, but I’ll end with Adam’s closing words, as they sum it up perfectly, an award for a true [...]

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Comics: The British Comics Awards – THE RESULTS ARE HERE

Saturday, November 17, 2012

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Tonight, at Leeds Thought Bubble Convention, the first ever British Comic Awards were handed out. I shall tell you all about the fun behind the awards at a later date, but right now the important things…. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, it gives me great, great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2012 [...]

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Graphic Novel Classic Library: When The Wind Blows

Saturday, December 11, 2010

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When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs Penguin Books When The Wind blows may not be everyone’s definition of huge sci-fi, but this tale of nuclear devastation, viewed from Briggs’ familiar everyman character’s perspective, is possibly the greatest modern example of speculative graphic fiction and is just as moving and  frightening now as it was [...]

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