Time For Lights Out

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It's all done in a variety of sketches, text snippets and poetry. The art varies from rough pencils to finished pencils, to full inks, mainly in shades of grey. It all adds to the sombre feel. Some of it feels like he just wants to get it on paper while he still can. Mortality, especially your own, is never going to be an easy topic, this was always going to be a dark book, I'm just a little sad at how depressing and self indulgent some of it is. Yet despite that, it still has its moments that are incredibly touching. He's still a master of his art. I've always loved this author's work so when I saw this "new" book on the library shelves I simply had to borrow it. Briggs published this book in 2019 and he was telling the stories of many old men, but also his own. He passed away less than 3 years afterwards, aged 88. That's pretty impressive.

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The essence of being able to draw from memory (is) to be a mini actor. If the figure is to walk jauntily with its nose in the air, you have to imagine what that feels like.'

People often ask about the technique in (The Snowman)... it is done entirely with pencil crayons, with no line in pen or pencil and no washes of ink or watercolour.' Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934, and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Art, London. The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Raymond Briggs is one of the foremost creators of illustrated books for adults and children, including the unforgettable The Snowman and Father Christmas. He was born in Wimbledon Park on the 18th of January 1934 and currently lives in Sussex.

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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek Magazine) and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War and “Dan Dare”. Most of my ideas seem to be based on a simple premise: let's assume that something imaginary - a snowman, a Bogeyman, a Father Christmas - is wholly real and then proceed logically from there.'

But there's much to console here. The section on his wife Jean is heartbreaking, especially with the photos, her short physical illness bringing to an end a still young life dominated by schizophrenia, but his love for her is expressed in so many different ways, even in the matter of fact tone in which he reflects on not having children. This makes his references to his enjoyment of 'the grandchildren' later, via his partner Liz, all the richer. A brutal reviewer once said that reading Martin Amis's notoriously self-indulgent novel Yellow Dog was 'like catching your favourite uncle masturbating in a school playground.' In this book, you will actually find Briggs depicting himself doing something not a million miles away from that, and doing so as if it's simply just a bit of fun. Categories: British Comics, British Comics - Graphic Novels, downthetubes Comics News, downthetubes News Drawing is Feeling”– Raymond Briggs talked about his craft during the Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen & Milkmen, which aired on BBC Two last year Craig Brown in The Mail on Sunday summarises that Time For Lights Out is a ‘category-defying rag-bag of drawings, poems and 犀利士

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This s a very depressing book. Well, the subject is not the most cheerful one, but many of us have happy moments even after 70! I don't know how to rate this, as a book about death, depression, getting old and dying, which this is, it couldn't have done a better job, so 5 stars for achieving what the author set out to do. This book is really difficult to write about. As Briggs is in his 70s he knows he's nearing the end of his life. This then is his thoughts on life and mortality. He discusses his current life, the walks with the dog, the visits from the grandkids, the pills and the side effects. Mixed in among that are memories of his life, growing up in London during the war, the death of his wife, his parents. A beloved genius of storytelling and illustration. Rachel Cooke, Observer, *Graphic Novel of the Month*I just didn't enjoy this, it is so negative and depressing, this is hard to read without sobbing or at least feeling really down afterwards.