{"id":41227,"date":"2022-08-10T13:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/raymond-briggs-illustrator-of-the-snowman-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:24:47","slug":"raymond-briggs-illustrator-of-the-snowman-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/raymond-briggs-illustrator-of-the-snowman-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Raymond Briggs, the children’s author whose cheeky <\/strong>illustrations dignified workaday British life and an audacious breadth of emotions, most prominently in the wordless escapades of \u201cThe Snowman,\u201d has died. He was 88.<\/p>\n

His death was confirmed on Wednesday by his publisher in Britain<\/a>Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n

By piling up square and rectangular frames like toy blocks, Mr. Briggs helped bring the visual language of comic books to children’s stories. The technique allowed him to cram action onto a page before delighting or shocking a reader with a large canvas \u2014 two new friends soaring over an English palace, or five warplanes ominously approaching.<\/p>\n

Despite primarily gearing his work for children, some of his most successful books are meditations on death. \u201cThe Snowman\u201d (1978), which was adapted into one of England’s most popular Christmas films, focuses on a fleeting friendship between a young boy and a snowman. \u201cWhen the Wind Blows\u201d (1982), an argument for nuclear disarmament, shows a retired English couple blithely following the government’s precautions before they are killed by a Soviet attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n