as the movie swaps the final twists and revelations of the book for an awkwardly truncated ending. The most bizarre aspect of The Snowman is a bit role from Val Kilmer as Gert Rafto, the Bergen ...

Briggs’s interest in commercial art was met with horror at ... for kiddy books / Or some such tripe. / You should have seen the stuff / He stuck up in that attic! / Snowman this and snowman ...

Similarly, Ferguson’s character, whose path takes a far different turn in Nesbo’s book, meets a curiously abrupt end in Alfredson’s movie. The Snowman is so full of head-scratching ...

He joins us this week to walk us through his design for Jo Nesbø’s “The Snowman ... The legendary book-cover designer and writer Chip Kidd, who brought Mendelsund into the business ...

It’s a fact of life.” The animated version of The Snowman, which appeared four years after the book’s publication, inserted "Walking in the Air", a motorcycle ride and a visit to Santa at ...

He was 88. Brigg’s family said he died Tuesday. Briggs’ books “Father Christmas,” “Fungus the Bogeyman” and “The Snowman” were all adapted for television and have delighted ...