‘We’ll still be watching in 50 years’: how Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman changed Christmas - The Guardian

When the film version of Briggs’s melancholy masterpiece was first screened in 1982, Britons clutched it to their hearts – where it has stayed ever since

Some people are so famous for so long that they become enmeshed in all our lives. Raymond Briggs, who died on Tuesday, was one of those people. Briggs illustrated his first book, Ruth Manning-Sanders… [+4112 chars]

full article...