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When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

by Raymond Briggs

Popular worksNuclear warfareEnglish dramaComic books, stripsComics & graphic novels, general
4.7
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Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.

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Popular worksNuclear warfareEnglish dramaComic books, stripsComics & graphic novels, generalFiction, historical, general

About the author

Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs

18 January 1934 – 2022-08-09

Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, to parents Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971), a milkman, and Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife, who married in 1930. His other known relatives are: an adoptive paternal grandmother (his father's step-mother), his maternal grandparents, and two maternal uncles who died during childhood. He attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father's attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography. From 1953 to 1955, he was a N…

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Raymond Briggs

Pages

46

Read time

≈ 1h

Editions

12

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

ISBN

9780141320663

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