The Bear

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Briggs died of pneumonia at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 9 August 2022, aged 88. [1] [13] Awards and honours [ edit ] Jim and the Beanstalk (1970) marked the first occasion that Briggs both author and illustrated a book. This was followed by Father Christmas (1973) in which Briggs started to use a comic strip format in his picture books. Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934, and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Art, London.

Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales (1958), retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Briggs [44] Perhaps Briggs’ most famous and well-known work was published in the late 1970s. The Snowman (1978) is a word-less picture book which won multiple awards and was adapted into an animated film in 1982. Commenting on the end of the book, Briggs said: “The Snowman has to melt because that’s what snowmen do." From the creator of The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman - now a live theatre show! About This Edition ISBN:The hilarious and heartwarming tale of a magical friendship between a girl and a polar bear, from beloved author of The Snowman, Raymond Briggs.

Raymond Briggs, the British author and illustrator of the classic children’s books Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), and The Snowman (1978), died on 9 August, aged 88.His best known work, The Snowman (1978), has sold more than 5.5 million copies in 21 countries and the animated film of the same name has been broadcast every Christmas Eve by Channel 4 since its first transmission in 1982. Raymond Briggs is one of my favorite picture book creators. He is probably best known for "The Snowman" which was made into an animation where the artwork stayed true to Briggs' recognisable style. I find his books appealing to children of all ages and to adults. They are all written with a sensitivity to the world children inhabit and this is very true of "The Bear". Lawson, Mark (14 December 2012). "The Snowman and the Snowdog: the pitfalls of remakes". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 August 2022.

I wanted to show the petty nastiness of life – slime and spit and dandruff, all this awful stuff which is slightly funny because it detracts from human dignity and our pretensions… everyone’s got that in their life. Everyone has to deal with disgusting things." Briggs's mature style, favouring crayon as a medium over earlier experiments in watercolour, has a fine-textured patina and muted palette that is as distinctive and unmistakable as the strongly outlined, vividly coloured images of two internationally popular Francophone comic-book series—Hergé’s Tintin adventures (starting in 1929) and René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s Asterix books (1959-2015)—both of which are reminiscent of the style and primary tones of the 19th-century posters and short books of the French publisher Imageries d’Epinal.

Yet the careful construction of the story, showing the growing friendship between snowman and boy, makes its sudden end more resonant and moving than this pragmatic explanation allows. People often ask about the technique in (The Snowman)... it is done entirely with pencil crayons, with no line in pen or pencil and no washes of ink or watercolour.'