The Snowman author and creator Raymond Briggs has died at the age of 88. It was turned into a Bafta TV award-winning animated TV film in 1982. RiaChatter looks back at his life.
But there was more to the work of Raymond Briggs, who has died aged 88, than charming cartoonish illustrations.
His most-loved works Fungus the Bogeyman, Father Christmas and Ethel and Ernest drew on his working-class background with people struggling in mundane jobs.But there was always a dark humour in his work that appealed across generations.
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