COMIC ARTIST

Raymond Briggs

1934 - 2022

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Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) 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 1978 story The Snowman, 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, recognising 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, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Briggs is the 146th most popular comic artist (down from 128th in 2019), the 5,160th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,204th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Raymond Briggs ranks 146 out of 226. Before him are George Herriman, Momoko Sakura, Sergio Aragonés, Mauri Kunnas, Makoto Yukimura, and Dave Gibbons. After him are Guy Delisle, Alex Raymond, Lynn Okamoto, John Byrne, Željko Pahek, and David Beauchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Raymond Briggs ranks 503. Before him are Carmine Caridi, Richard Shelby, Oleg Golovanov, Elías Querejeta, Fredy Perlman, and Jim Inhofe. After him are Hans Mild, Tom Bridger, Rodney Stark, Michael Dunn, Bud Luckey, and Florence Henderson. Among people deceased in 2022, Raymond Briggs ranks 565. Before him are Albert Pyun, Ronald Lopatni, Jürgen Sundermann, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Gerhard Roth, and Dorothy E. Smith. After him are Bjarni Tryggvason, Mike Hodges, Rodney Stark, Naomi Judd, Javier Cárdenas, and Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Briggs ranks 5,162 out of 8,785. Before him are Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Wendy Smith-Sly (1959), Izaak Walton (1593), Pauline Baynes (1922), John Betjeman (1906), and Dorothy E. Smith (1926). After him are John Garstang (1876), Howard Kendall (1946), Justin Hayward (1946), Peter Cook (1936), Bryan Forbes (1926), and William Bell Scott (1811).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United Kingdom

Among comic artists born in United Kingdom, Raymond Briggs ranks 6. Before him are Alan Moore (1953), Quentin Blake (1932), David Lloyd (1950), Jamie Hewlett (1968), and Dave Gibbons (1949). After him are John Byrne (1950), Ronald Searle (1920), Mark Millar (1969), Garth Ennis (1970), Warren Ellis (1968), and Dave McKean (1963).

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