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Briggs, Raymond Redvers (1934– )| English writer and illustrator of children's books including Father Christmas (1973) and The Snowman (1979), both of which use his hallmark comic-strip format and have been made into successful animated films. |
| Other works include Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), Gentleman Jim (1980), When the Wind Blows (1983), and The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1985). He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1966 and 1973, and won Children's Author of the Year in 1992. |
| He studied art at the Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, both in London. |
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