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2 | ->''"I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it."'' |
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4 | Raymond Redvers Briggs [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CBE]] (18 January 1934 - 9 August 2022) was an English author and illustrator known for his picture books. |
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6 | His books for children include ''ComicBook/FatherChristmas'' (awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal), ''Father Christmas Goes on Holiday'', ''Fungus the Bogeyman'', ''ComicBook/TheSnowman'' (a magical and completely wordless tale that was adapted into a beloved animated film), and ''ComicBook/TheMan''. |
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8 | His books for older readers -- [[ArtStyleDissonance disconcertingly illustrated in the same cartoony style]] -- include ''Gentleman Jim'', ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows'' (a darkly comic take on nuclear holocaust from the point-of-view of a simple cheerful middle-aged couple), ''The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman'' (a satire of UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar), and ''WesternAnimation/EthelAndErnest'', a graphic biography of his own parents that turned into an animated film narrated by Briggs himself. |
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10 | !!Works by Raymond Briggs with their own trope pages include: |
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12 | * ''ComicBook/{{The Bear|1994}}'' |
13 | * ''ComicBook/FatherChristmas'' |
14 | * ''Literature/FungusTheBogeyman'' |
15 | * ''ComicBook/TheMan'' |
16 | * ''ComicBook/TheSnowman'' |
17 | * ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows'' |
18 | * ''WesternAnimation/EthelAndErnest'' |
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20 | !!Other works by Raymond Briggs provide examples of: |
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22 | * DelusionsOfEloquence: The protagonist of ''Gentleman Jim''. |
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