One of the great joys of Raymond Briggs’s column in The Oldie was that we got two geniuses for the price of one.
As well as receiving his charming sideways look at life in the column, we got one of his peerless drawings every month. A compilation was later published as a popular book (pictured), called Notes from the Sofa, the name of the column.
So now we had regular drawings by one of the most successful illustrators of the last century. Among and .