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Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator cartoonist graphic novelist and author who had achieved critical and popular success among adults and children He was best known for his story The Snowman which is shown every Christmas on British television in cartoon form and on the stage as a musical. Dear father christmas alan durant pdf His first three major works Father Christmas Father Christmas Goes on Holiday both featuring a curmudgeonly Father Christmas who complains incessantly about the blooming snow and Fungus the Bogeyman were in the form of comics rather than the typical childrens book format of separate text and illustrations The Snowman 1978 was entirely wordless and illustrated with only pencil crayons The Snowman became Briggs best known Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator cartoonist graphic novelist and author who had achieved critical and popular success among adults and children He was best known for his story The Snowman which is shown every Christmas on British television in cartoon form and on the stage as a musical. Father christmas emerson lake and palmer His first three major works Father Christmas Father Christmas Goes on Holiday both featuring a curmudgeonly Father Christmas who complains incessantly about the blooming snow and Fungus the Bogeyman were in the form of comics rather than the typical children s book format of separate text and illustrations The Snowman 1978 was entirely wordless and illustrated with only pencil crayons The Snowman became Briggs best known work when in 1982 it was made into an Oscar nominated animated cartoon that has been shown every year since on British television. Book father christmas near me Briggs continued to work in a similar format but with adult content in Gentleman Jim 1980 a sombre look at the working class trials of Jim and Hilda Bloggs closely based on his parents When the Wind Blows 1982 confronted the trusting optimistic Bloggs couple with the horror of nuclear war and was praised in the British House of Commons for its timeliness and originality The topic was inspired after Briggs watched a Panorama documentary on nuclear contingency planning and the dense format of the page was inspired by a Swiss publisher s miniature version of Father Christmas This book was turned into a two handed radio play with Peter Sallis in the male lead role and subsequently an animated film featuring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft The Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman 1984 was a scathing denunciation of the Falklands War However Briggs continued to produce humour for children in works such as the Unlucky Wally series and The Bear. Father christmas letterhead He was recognized as The Children s Author of the Year in 1993 by the British Book Awards His graphic novel Ethel and Ernest which portrayed his parents 41 year marriage won Best Illustrated Book in the 1999 British Book Awards site_link Raymond Briggs creator of The Snowman tells a magical Christmas story that will appeal to everyone who wants to believe in Santa Claus. Book father christmas near me 2020 Meet Father a very human gift giver with a tough job to do You ll find out that he sometimes gets a little grumpy living at the icy North Pole and squeezing down chimneys but he than makes up for it in heart and humor Raymond Briggs brings this endearing character to life in over 100 wonderfully illustrated vignettes that follow the adventures of Father Christmas on his big night of the year Father Christmas The Book Of The Film