Fungus the Bogeyman

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Catch Your Death of Cold: Parodied. Bogeys have a superstition that if you get your feet dry, you'll catch a disease called a "hot". It is about creatures called Bogeymen (i.e. "boogeymen" in US English; "bogeys" is also UK English for the US "boogers", as in lumps of snot): humanoid creatures with green skin and large ears that live underground. Notable characteristics of Bogey people is that they are lazy and like to be slow, like the cold (and conversely hate the heat), like to be dirty and hate to be clean, and like to be wet. The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: The book ends with the message "Fear not the Bogeymen by day, but at night, watch out!".

The essence of being able to draw from memory (is) to be a mini actor. If the figure is to walk jauntily with its nose in the air, you have to imagine what that feels like.' In Fungus the Bogeyman I wanted to show the petty nastiness of life - slime and snot and spit and dandruff, all this awful stuff which is slightly funny because it detracts from human dignity and our pretensions.' Raymond Briggs is one of the foremost creators of illustrated books for adults and children, including the unforgettable The Snowman and Father Christmas. He was born in Wimbledon Park on the 18th of January 1934 and currently lives in Sussex. A three-part adaptation, featuring Timothy Spall as the title character, aired on Sky1 in December 2015 [4] and was partly shot at West London Film Studios. This adaption also starred Marc Warren, Keeley Hawes, Joanna Scanlan, Jimmy Akingbola, Paul Kaye, and also Victoria Wood in her final television role before her death in April 2016. It was produced by Andy Serkis's motion-capture studio, The Imaginarium, with Serkis also as the narrator.Odd Name Out: Fungus is the only one of his family whose name doesn't start with an "M". His wife's name is Mildew and their son's name is Mould. People often ask about the technique in (The Snowman)... it is done entirely with pencil crayons, with no line in pen or pencil and no washes of ink or watercolour.' Thermal Dissident: Bogeys as a species prefer colder temperatures, which is part of the reason they're nocturnal, and will complain if the weather is too warm. However, there's nothing to suggest they actually need it to be cold. The story s basically a day in the life of Fungus. The book also delves into the language and life of all bogeymen. Fungus goes to work up where the ‘drycleaners’ live, traelling very slowly on his flat wheeled bike. When Fungus reaches work the reader is shown the bogeyman’s labour, which is frightening humans. Tapping windows, tugging blankets, creaking stairs, making babies cry and hanging around graveyards are all in a nights work for the bogeyman. Fungus has been doing this for many years and is beginning to question the meaning of his life. He seeks solace in the pub, the library and in his home. The end comprises of him confiding in his wife Mildew. She reassures him and we are shown that bogeyman, disgusting as they are potrayed in this book, still possess the strongest human emotion, love. Experience a day in the life of a Bogeyman in this brilliantly gross picture book for older children.

The Vicar: The "Nice Little Vicar" terrorised by Fungus. A footnote explains that bogeys resent Vicars for conflating them with devils. Most of my ideas seem to be based on a simple premise: let's assume that something imaginary - a snowman, a Bogeyman, a Father Christmas - is wholly real and then proceed logically from there.' Fungus the Bogeyman is a 1977 children's picture book by British artist Raymond Briggs. It follows one day in the life of the title character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. The character and all related properties are now owned by Vivendi's Studiocanal. [1] Plot [ edit ] Mix-and-Match Critter: Bogeys are humanoid but have horns, cat-like whiskers in their ears, frog-like tongues, spinal fins, scales, webbed hands and feet, and four-chambered stomachs like cattle.The book masterfully combines a thorough anatomy of Bogeyworld with a meditation on the futility of existence. As Fungus moves slowly through his day (or, I should say, his night, since Bogeys are nocturnal), he is given to such reflections as "Not to reason why... not ask questions... just keep bogling away". Toilet Humour: The whole book is a whole lot of gross-out jokes. Our protagonist drinks slime, wears dung-covered clothes, and sleeps in a bed of snails.

And even considering that many children do seem to massively relish and cherish humour based on bodily functions and liquid excretions, I do have to wonder whether the massive amounts of the latter occurring in Fungus the Bogeyman might well end up being potentially distracting and even too much of a "good thing" (so much so as to even jade and feel dragging for children who usually enjoy this type of humour, these types of jokes). For while Fungus' world and his daily life are indeed often minutely, engagingly and even in a strange way beautifully described and depicted (and the accompanying illustrations are gorgeously drawn and actually, amazingly sparkle with their very and often intense general ugliness), really and truly, for and to me, the constant and ever-present referrals to farting, vomiting, grottiness, slime, mould and the like does tend to become rather frustratingly dragging. Green Is Gross: The Bogey people are green and have disgusting habits like being perpetually dirty and eating flies. Mind Screwdriver: The book asserts that the poem about the Man in the Moon makes sense if the man was a Bogeyman because he went south to avoid the heat and he burnt his mouth on cold plum porridge because Bogeys burn themselves easily. Delusions of Eloquence: Bogeys are fond of profound-sounding platitudes, which they usually misquote.Smelly Feet: Bogeys' entire bodies stink but their feet are the worst - or the best, from their point of view. Repulsive but none the less compulsive'. This classic Raymond Briggs book hasn't got a real storyline. It's more like an comic strip encyclopedia on the life of bogeymen (Fungus) and bogeywomen (wife Mildew) and their bogeychildren (son Mould). The book just charts a day in the life of a bogeyman, who it seems, exists merely to torment us 'Drycleaners'. This clever study of bogeydom revels in all things revolting, slimy, putrid, and lavatorial, and even raises deep questions on the meaning of Bogeydom life.