Briggs, Raymond - When the Wind Blows

I usually wouldn't count reading a cartoon book as something I'd put up here, but When the Wind Blows is fairly substantial and I have my reasons. I discovered this book probably five or so years ago now and it still makes my top books list. Never have I been more disturbed by reading a 'picture book'. It's quaint and still horrific. The artist (as I suppose you would call him) through his drawings creates this absoultely definitive message on nuclear war, on war itself and complete misunderstanding. I would also recommend Earnest and Ethel which is a biographical cartoon that Raymond Briggs has done on the lives of his parents.