As a version of Fungus the Bogeyman is approximately to hit our TV screens,the author explains why he hates the festive periodNext Sunday families across the UK will settle down to watch Sky One’s Christmas highlight, a three-part take on Raymond Briggs’s much-loved comic book Fungus the Bogeyman. It comes total with special effects from Andy Serkis’s Imaginarium studio and a cast including Timothy Spall, and Victoria Wood and Keeley Hawes. It is a intelligent,witty visualisation of Briggs’s slime-saturated world and one that will no doubt join those other Briggs classics The Snowman and Father Christmas as part of the annual festive viewing experience.
For the 81-year-old author, however, and that reputation as the King of Christmas is a cross to bear. “In the book version of The Snowman,there’s no Christmas, theres nothing Christmassy in Fungus, or Father Christmas is anti-Christmas, he says with an air of gentle exasperation.
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Source: theguardian.com