The author of the Snowman book, Raymond Briggs famously always disliked Christmas and thought the cartoon twee. His picture book includes no Santa or Christmas,

The author of the Snowman book, Raymond Briggs famously always disliked Christmas and thought the cartoon twee. His picture book includes no Santa or Christmas, just a boy who makes a snowman, which comes to life and is melting next morning. 40 years later, he's bloody sick of it. “I was fed up with it years ago. I’m even more fed up with it now it’s been going on for nearly 40 bloody years.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/21/raymond-briggs-interview-time-for-lights-out https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/21/raymond-briggs...