Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE was a British 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 is a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognizing the year’s best children’s book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named Father Christmas (1973) one of the top-ten winning works, composed the ballot for a public election of the nation’s favorite.
Where did Raymond Briggs go to college and high school?
Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934, 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.
From 1953 to 1955, he was a National Service conscript in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick, where he was made a draughtsman. After this, he returned to study painting at Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London, graduating in 1957.
