The author’s books inspired Channel 4’s much-loved Christmas animations.
The author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for his 1978 work The Snowman, passed away yesterday, August 9, aged 88.
Briggs produced a wealth of books including an illustrated book of nursery rhymes, The Mother Goose Treasury (1966), Father Christmas (1973), Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), When the Wind Blows (1982) and The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984).
Many of his works, which were largely based on themes of love and loss, have been adapted into films, plays and TV animations.
The producer John Coates turned his most famous work,...
The author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for his 1978 work The Snowman, passed away yesterday, August 9, aged 88.
Briggs produced a wealth of books including an illustrated book of nursery rhymes, The Mother Goose Treasury (1966), Father Christmas (1973), Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), When the Wind Blows (1982) and The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984).
Many of his works, which were largely based on themes of love and loss, have been adapted into films, plays and TV animations.
The producer John Coates turned his most famous work,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Ellie Kahn Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Perhaps Rio de Janeiro collectively partied too hard at Carnival. International Olympic Committee Vice Chairman John Coates said that Rio's 2016 Summer Olympics Preparation is “the worst” he's ever seen. Also read: Sochi Winter Olympics in Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Two years away, there has been very little construction other than simply clearing of venue areas, Coates said. Water quality is also concern. Coates called the Ioc's forced embedment of its own experts simply to pull the Games off “unprecedented.” Still, no matter what happens, the Olympics will be there in 2016: “There can be no Plan B,...
- 4/29/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
If I quit my day job, I just might possibly keep up with the output from TwoMorrows Publishing. Sundry regularly published magazines (Alter-Ego, Back Issue, Draw!, etc.), trade paperback and hardcover profiles of significant creators, publishing lines, eras and events – I can’t begin to list them all here. Well, I could, but they do a better job on their own website.
Did I mention they do everything up in both hardcopy and digital? Well, they do, and they’ve made many an otherwise tedious commute into Manhattan a lot more palatable.
I only get to bring to your attention a small fraction of their books. I’m still pissed that travel and work schedules didn’t allow me to review their Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour. So, to paraphrase the great Jack Kirby (and, yeah, they also publish The Jack Kirby Collector), just buy it.
But I...
Did I mention they do everything up in both hardcopy and digital? Well, they do, and they’ve made many an otherwise tedious commute into Manhattan a lot more palatable.
I only get to bring to your attention a small fraction of their books. I’m still pissed that travel and work schedules didn’t allow me to review their Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour. So, to paraphrase the great Jack Kirby (and, yeah, they also publish The Jack Kirby Collector), just buy it.
But I...
- 7/10/2013
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Emmanuel Roman is intrigued by the hi-tech banking methods imagined in Robert Harris's latest work
Post-financial crisis, it was only a matter of time before Robert Harris introduced a new set of bad guys. We had Nazis in Fatherland, corrupt Roman politicians in Pompeii and, closer to home, a barely disguised Tony Blair-like figure in Ghost. In The Fear Index, Harris's latest thriller – which he is already adapting for film, to be directed by Paul Greengrass – we are cast into the dystopic world of finance where nerdy hedge fund managers and their computers may be the modern embodiment of evil. Perhaps Harris has been reading too much Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, as he gives the impression of believing that financial markets are one step away from some kind of twisted final stage of evolution.
The hero of The Fear Index is a brilliant physicist called Dr Alex Hoffman.
Post-financial crisis, it was only a matter of time before Robert Harris introduced a new set of bad guys. We had Nazis in Fatherland, corrupt Roman politicians in Pompeii and, closer to home, a barely disguised Tony Blair-like figure in Ghost. In The Fear Index, Harris's latest thriller – which he is already adapting for film, to be directed by Paul Greengrass – we are cast into the dystopic world of finance where nerdy hedge fund managers and their computers may be the modern embodiment of evil. Perhaps Harris has been reading too much Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, as he gives the impression of believing that financial markets are one step away from some kind of twisted final stage of evolution.
The hero of The Fear Index is a brilliant physicist called Dr Alex Hoffman.
- 9/17/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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