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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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