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Remembering Raymond Briggs: pioneering illustrator and creator of beloved book The Snowman

Briggs used his charming, low-tech visual style to devastating emotional effect in his adult, anti-war books as much as in his beloved children's tales and their film adaptations

Louis Jebb
19 August 2022
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The author and illustrator Raymond Briggs posing beside a deckchair decorated with a character from his 1978 book The Snowman, in Hyde Park, London, in 2008. Photo: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo