Raymond Briggs remembered: ‘He made what he did look easy. Which is, of course, what geniuses do’
The Snowman, the Bogeyman and Father Christmas: the world of Raymond Briggs – in pictures
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A look back at Raymond Briggs' most famous illustrations – video obituary
Raymond Briggs obituary
‘We’ll still be watching in 50 years’: how Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman changed Christmas
Share your tributes and memories of Snowman author Raymond Briggs
Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88
March 2022
‘By 10, I knew all about the impact of a nuclear blast’: growing up in the shadow of the bomb
From CND marches, to books, films and music, fear of the bomb was everywhere in the 1980s. Now, for many, the war in Ukraine has brought back that sense of dread
November 2021
‘Vile desecration’: new version of The Snowman axed after composer’s criticism
BBC removes Stephen Fry-narrated arrangement of Howard Blake score from Radio 3 Christmas schedule
March 2021
The Guardian view on the picture book: not just for children
Editorial: When a Nobel-prizewinning novelist turns to illustrated fiction, it’s time to question assumptions
March 2020
Chris Riddell’s tips for young artists: bunk off school sports and study Raymond Briggs
The illustrator and Observer political cartoonist talks of his mentor – and his first crush – on Desert Island Discs
December 2019
Raymond Briggs: ‘Everything takes so bloody long when you’re old’
The Snowman author has always looked hard truths and bogeymen in the eye. He talks about his frank new illustrated memoir, Time for Lights Out
November 2019
Graphic novel of the month
Time for Lights Out by Raymond Briggs review – disorienting and plangent
The great author and illustrator of Father Christmas and Gentleman Jim tells his melancholy life story
