Moon Holidays? They’re *so* 20th Century…
Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator of the hugely popular graphic novels The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman, among many others, died on 9 August at the age of 88.
‘Marney the Fox’—Cute fluffy tale of a cuddly animal roaming the countryside? Or Kafaesque reflection on the inhumanity of humans, spiralling into nihilism? Bit of both, really.
A break from the traditions of British Girls’ weeklies, Sally emphasised the fantastic and the super-normal, with super-heroines and science-fiction in the spotlight.