Met deze strip sloot ik de cyclus van de vier graphic novels/strips, die autobiografisch of sterk autobiografische elementen bevatten, af: The Snowman, Gentleman Jim, When the Wind Blows en deze. The illustrations were beautiful and reminiscent of Briggs' other masterpiece, The Snowman, and the ending was very, very poignant. En ella nos relata su vida familiar desde que se conocen hasta que fallecen, donde iremos viendo el paso del tiempo, los progresos, las diferencias entre ambos, etc. The reason this does not get a higher rating is that this is a very specific story about a certain, albeit lovely, couple, and I'm not sure why anyone not family would really care about them. Muy recomendable para pasar un rato agradable conociendo a esta gran pareja que seguro que os llega al corazón.

Briggs shows us scenes from his imagination of his parents’ lives: how they met, raised a family during a destructive world war, and lived through the cultural roller-coaster ride of the 20th century. pero que quienes la vimos recordamos muy nítidamente los primeros minutos en los que, a modo casi de cortometraje paralelo al film, se narra la vida de un matrimonio en unas pocas escenas y se condensa en algunos minutos una preciosa e inolvidable historia de amor. Both Ethel and Ernest are on the old side for married couples in those days, I think, but certainly Ethel who is, I believe, in her mid to late thirties. The story is a chronological progression through poignant moments in the home lives of the titular couple, from when they first meet in 1928 to their deaths in 1971. As Raymond grows up, he gets admitted into Grammar school which is exciting for his parents because they didn't have a proper education and then get disappointed when he wants to attend art school.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In the UK, the film was repeated on BBC Two on 10 August 2022, in light of the news of Briggs' death coming earlier that day. It's the true story of Raymond Briggs' parents, and his journalistic, colorful account of their life before he was born. Ahora que hay quienes quieren sacar un partido ideológicamente turbio de lo entrañables que pueden llegar a ser las historias del pasado, que idealizan ese pasado a costa de esconder lo que tenía más de problemático, hace bien leer libros como este, que no embellece nada de forma interesada ni quiere venderle la moto a nadie.

I just feel that Ethel sometimes came across as someone who thought she was better than others which diminished the affinity I had with her. As far as I'm concerned, this is a comic strip of a couple discussing their son, politics and what they're doing to their house. There's good memories, like when you played games or sang silly songs as a child, went down to the beach or moved up to "big" school.The love Ethel and Ernest have for each other is epic and perhaps even more so given that Briggs is focusing on the mundane, every-day stuff of life (even during wartime). In a colour pictorial laminated hardback cover with black titles to spine and red and black titles to front. Hay gente que a base de historias emotivas busca hacerte más mezquino, y luego hay gente como Raymond Briggs, que sin pretenderlo te limpian un poco el alma. Cape; 1998 ; As NEW, FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing, HARDBACK in near fine unclipped DW (tiny mark lower front).

They meet during the Depression -- she working as a chambermaid, he as a milkman -- and we follow them as they encounter, and cope with, World War II, the advent of radio and t. Dahl's books are populated with unfortunate children who become wounded but wiser by their adventures, such as James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, and so on. What I enjoyed about this was that it was VERY British (which of course connected with me) and that they felt so 'normal'. It is a sad book, I hope their lives had more happiness, I think they probably did, a book covering the whole of someone's life often seems sad just because it has flashed past but these lives did seem portrayed in a sad way.

On the other hand, I loved Ernest - he was a passionate man who liked to rub his wife up the wrong way at times, just to see her reaction. His first three major works, Father Christmas, Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (both featuring a curmudgeonly Father Christmas who complains incessantly about the "blooming snow"), and Fungus the Bogeyman, were in the form of comics rather than the typical children's-book format of separate text and illustrations. Ethel and Ernest is probably his most personal work, telling as it does, the life of his parents from the.

For Example, when Hitler first came into power, Raymond parents didn't find him horrible and liked him.This graphic novel for adults covers the lives of Raymond Briggs parents from when they first met to their deaths.