The Bear

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When the Wind Blows (1986)". BFI. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016 . Retrieved 11 August 2022. Briggs was drawn to illustration by his love of the newspaper comic strips of his childhood, when Mary Tourtel and Alfred Bestall’s Rupert Bear was a publishing phenomenon in the mass-circulation Daily Express newspaper and, from 1936, as an annual. He also grew up in the golden age of comics: the first Superman comic strip appeared in 1938 and the first comic book devoted to the character in 1939, the year that also saw the launch of Marvel Comics. It was also a time when art's boundaries had been expanded by flight and aerial photography, whether it was the the airborne cinematic perspectives of the Italian Futurists such as Guglielmo Sansoni and Tullio Crali or the paintings of the British war artist Eric Ravilious, with an aerial vantage point level with RAF aircraft in flight over the patchwork landscape of southern England. Briggs stated that he used to be a staunch supporter of the Labour Party, although he lost faith in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. [31] In Fungus the Bogeyman I wanted to show the petty nastiness of life - slime and snot and spit and dandruff, all this awful stuff which is slightly funny because it detracts from human dignity and our pretensions.' The secretary of the Inter-Church Peace Council (IKV) in the Netherlands, Mient Jan Faber (left), receiving the first copy of the comic book When the Wind Blows (called When the Bomb Fell in the Dutch version) by Raymond Briggs (right) in 1983 Photo: Dutch National Archives

I listened to 'The Bear' on audio tape a lot when I was little, and I remember it well today, even more so than Raymond Briggs' other works for children. A warm (despite the cold content) and touching little story that contains the familiar Briggs themes of care, responsibility, and letting go: from the point of view of Tilly, a little girl protagonist. Summary: Teby has a dream about a giant polar bear entering her room through a window and spending the day with her. Teby gets the experience of a lifetime spending the day loving this bear, cleaning up after it, and trying to talk to her parents about her friend. a b c "Kate Greenaway Medal". 2007?. Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University ( CCSU). Retrieved 25 June 2012. Anjorin, Israel (10 August 2022). "Raymond Briggs, a Snowman author has passed away at age 88 – Death". SNBC13.com . Retrieved 11 August 2022.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. Walker, Emily (24 December 2010). "Snowman author says: "I hate Christmas" (From The Argus)". Theargus.co.uk . Retrieved 23 July 2012. 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. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

Briggs died of pneumonia at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 9 August 2022, aged 88. [1] [13] Awards and honours [ edit ]

Wroe, Nicholas (18 December 2004). "Bloomin' Christmas". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 22 May 2010. a b c d e (Greenaway Winner 1966). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 14 July 2012.

Raymond Briggs obituary: An illustrious career". BBC News. 10 August 2022 . Retrieved 10 August 2022. The Bear is a 1998 British animated Christmas special directed by Hilary Audus. Based on the book of the same name by the author Raymond Briggs, the film was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom at Christmas 1998 and released in the United States as a Direct-to-Video release by Buena Vista Home Video in 1998. [1] Peter and the Piskies. Cornish folk and fairy tales. Illustrated by Raymond Briggs". WorldCat. London. 1958 . Retrieved 11 August 2022.Briggs has recently returned to illustrating, with Alan Ahlberg’s interactive children’s books The Adventures of Bert and A Bit More Bert (2001-2), but his own latest, The Puddleman (2004) is another idiosyncratic work, about a child’s appreciation of a character who puts puddles in the ground. He has now achieved a subtle and expressive form, equally able to move and entertain us. He has, says Nicolette Jones, ‘elevated the standing of the art of strip illustration and added status to children’s books’. Touring from the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the retrospective highlights a selection of Briggs’ most significant works and reveal his expert draughtsmanship, captivating storytelling and the subversive humour throughout some of the most popular and influential children’s books and graphic novels of the 20 th century. Briggs's wife Jean, who had schizophrenia, died from leukaemia in 1973, two years after his parents' death. They did not have any children. [28] Briggs’s life moved into a minor key in the 2010s with the death in 2015 of his partner of 40 years Liz Benjamin, who had brought a stepson, a stepdaughter and stepgrandchildren into his life. He remained as involved as ever in his writing and adaptations of his work, and was the executive producer on the film of Ethel & Ernest, although his health kept him from attending as many production sessions as he would have liked. One of his final works was Time for Lights Out (2019), which he described as a "big fat book on old age and death". Briggs was uneasy at being described as a pioneering graphic novelist—he preferred to describe his creations as “picture books”. But the barely concealed emotional charge of his children’s tales, and their bucolic charm, acquired a stinging, subversive power when deployed, in an unaltered visual style, in his adult, satirical and autobiographical books, including Gentleman Jim (1980) and When the Wind Blows (1982).

Only Chris Riddell has won three Greenaways. Among the fourteen illustrators with two Medals, Briggs is one of seven with one book named to the top ten (1955–2005) and also one of seven with at least one Highly Commended runner-up (1974–2002), led by Helen Oxenbury with two Medals and four HC. Guardian book club: Week two: Raymond Briggs on Father Christmas's terrible job ...". Raymond Briggs with John Mullan. The Guardian. 20 December 2008. 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.From the creator of The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman - now a live theatre show! Read more Details Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934, and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Art, London. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales (1958), retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Briggs [44] The late 1960s and 1970s was a richly creative time in Briggs’ career while tinged with grief following the deaths of both of his parents and his wife within the space of 24 months.