In memoy of Raymond Redvers Briggs

 Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022)^[1] was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.^[2]

Raymond Briggs CBE
Briggs in 1983
Born	Raymond Redvers Briggs 18 January 1934 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Died	9 August 2022 (aged 88) Brighton, England
Area(s)	Artist, writer, cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator
Notable works	Father Christmas The Bear Fungus the Bogeyman The Snowman When the Wind Blows Jim and the Beanstalk Ug Ethel & Ernest
Awards	Kate Greenaway Medal 1966, 1973 Horn Book Award 1979 British Book Award 1993, 1999
Spouse(s)	Jean Briggs ​ ​ (m. 1963; died 1973)​

Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.^[3][4] For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named Father Christmas (1973) one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.^[5] For his contribution as a children's illustrator, Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.^[6][7] He was a patron of the Association of Illustrators.^[8]