page_title: Raymond Briggs
hierarchical_section_title: Raymond Briggs
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Collectie / Archief&#160;: Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie&#160;: IKV-secretaris Mient Jan Faber (l) ontvangt het eerste exemplaar van het stripboek "Toen viel de bom" van schrijver Raymond Briggs Beschrijving&#160;: strips, schrijvers, kernwapens, Briggs, Raymond Datum&#160;: 10 mei 1983 Trefwoorden&#160;: kernwapens, schrijvers, strips Persoonsnaam&#160;: Briggs, Raymond; Faber, Mient Jan Fotograaf&#160;: Croes, Rob C. / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende&#160;: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort&#160;: Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris&#160;: bekijk toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer&#160;: 932-5852
context_page_description: Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. He is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
  Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal, a panel named Father Christmas one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
  For his contribution as a children's illustrator Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.
  He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
context_section_description: Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. He is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
  Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named Father Christmas (1973) one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
  For his contribution as a children's illustrator Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.
  He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
caption: Briggs (right, 1983)
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