Raymond Briggs CBE was a British illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he was 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.
He attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father’s attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography.
Briggs won the 1992 Kurt Maschler Award, or the Emil, both for writing and for illustrating The Man, a short graphic novel featuring a boy and a homunculus.
The award annually recognized one British children’s book for the integration of text and illustration
Raymond Briggs’s parents: Ernest Briggs, and Ethel Briggs
Ernest Briggs was the father of Raymond Briggs. Ernest was born in the year 1900. He worked as a milk delivery man. Ernest’s wife, who was Raymond’s mother, was called Ethel Briggs. She was born in the year 1895. Ethel was an English housemaid who later became the housewife of Ernest Briggs.
Ethel was approximate, five years older than her husband. Ernest as an ardent socialist, his views are invariably at odds with his wife’s conservative take on life. The two lived together and had their son Raymond. Ernest and his wife Ethel both died the same year, 1971
