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#BookMail from yesterday

This story had been on my mind for quite a while, but I never knew what the title was until @Bookwomble posted about it.

Briggs's humour is dark! Jim and Hilda are following the actual advice given to the British public by the government in the event of a nuclear war. That they follow it with the expectation they will survive is part of the humour, the pathos and the tragedy. Jim and Hilda are rather hapless with their malaprops, their vague understanding of global politics, and frequent mixing up of their WWII blitz experience with their present situation. ⬇️

"Cheerio Jim"

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Having just read two novels set in the post-apocalypse, Raymond Briggs's graphic novel is set during one, this of the nuclear kind & focusing on the absurdity of naïve Hilda & Jim Bloggs following the government's advice on "surviving" a nuclear attack by painting their windows white & huddling under a bomb shelter made out of a door.
Loved for his kids books The Snowman & Fungus the Bogeyman, this is mordant adult humour of the blackest sort. ?

Tragically, none of the neighbors got into their shelters in time; they couldn't hear the radio broadcast, or the blast, over the clap of James' godly ass cheeks.

Not quite The Snowman or a northern wind but this was the first book that came to mind with today‘s theme. #WinterWonderland #BlowNorthernWind

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When The Wind Blows is a graphic novel about the impact of a nuclear fallout, through the eyes of an old, domestic couple. The entire book, the couple confuses who the enemy is, is too preoccupied with domestic chores, is ill equipped to comprehend the situation, unaware of the impact of nuclear war and yet, they are trying their hardest to be good citizens.
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