Raymond Briggs, Author and Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 - The New York Times

The children’s author used comic-strip-like panels to explore the joys and struggles of workaday British life. With irreverent wit, he also interrogated Father Christmas and nuclear war.

Before impending nuclear annihilation, a husband paints the windows white and builds a lean-to shelter while his wife frets about his staining the curtains and marking the wallpaper. Frames upon fram… [+1314 chars]

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