Blooming death

[shewhomust]

Raymond Briggs has died.

"I don't have happy endings," Briggs [allegedly] told the Radio Times in 2012. "I create what seems natural and inevitable. The snowman melts, my parents died, animals die, flowers die. Everything does. There's nothing particularly gloomy about it. It's a fact of life."

"Allegedly" because the Gardian is not the only place I've found this attribution, but the link provided leads nowhere. Even internet links die ...

Comments

[cmcmck]

It was Fungus the bogeyman who I adored and still adore.



This about sums it up really- his eye had that ability.

[yamamanama]

Of course he didn't. Have you ever seen When The Wind Blows?

[nineweaving]

Ethel & Ernest is heartbreaking, but so beautiful.

Nine

[shewhomust]

My 'Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book' is one of my most treasured possessions!

[shewhomust]

You say that as if there's a film - is there? As so often, I have not seen one, but have read the book. And heard a radio dramatisation, I think.

[shewhomust]

Indeed, and it's interesting that the death of his parents is one of the sad endings he chooses to list. Also, see above, Ethel & Ernest made me see his parents in When The Wind Blowst ...

[yamamanama]

There's an animated film.