Author and illustrator Dick Bruna died yesterday, at the age of 89. In celebration, here is an interview he gave in 2008 about how he came to create the £150 million rabbit. Dick Bruna has already made tea and brought over biscuits, and now he leans forward from a chair in his airy, top-floor Utrecht studio. Spectacular white walrus whiskers twitch expectantly and behind a pair of oval spectacles,
![Miffy creator Dick Bruna: 'Hello Kitty is a copy of Miffy. I don't like that at all'](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/96362aed22f537de3a673e3d639b0eabfb66110f/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fbooks%2F2017%2F02%2F17%2Fbruna_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg%3Fimpolicy%3Dlogo-overlay)