Raymond Briggs (born January 18, 1934) is an Englishillustrator, cartoonist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... Authorship redirects here. ...
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The Snowman is a childrens book by British author Raymond Briggs, published in 1978. ... For other uses, see When the Wind Blows. ... Ivor the Invisible is an animated film made for British televisions Channel Four in 2001. ...
References
Anita Silvey (editor), The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators, ISBN 0-618-19082-1
According to Briggs, his reasons for opting for what he describes as "the labour-intensive botheration of strip cartoons" were mainly due to space considerations.
Briggs was prompted to experiment in format after he saw a miniature version of his FATHER CHRISTMAS produced by a Swiss publisher.
A RaymondBriggs fansite FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN (1979): Briggs' most amusing work, this takes the familiar tropes of children's illustrated books and adds as much foul excrescence as it possibly can without losing any of the social commentary, much to the ghoulish delight of children everywhere.
Briggs acknowledges that his work is often initially prompted by fantasy, "like a snowman or a bogeyman", but is then pursued entirely logically and realistically.
Briggs was born in 1934 in his parents' three-bedroom house in Wimbledon Park, and shares his birthday - January 18 - with AA Milne and Arthur Ransome.
Briggs is wryly amused at some of the oddities that have emerged over the years and his house is crowded with Snowman products, but perhaps the most remarkable spin-off has seen the famously wordless story being given a text and used as part of a teach-to-read programme in America.
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