Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (18 January 1934 - 9 August 2022) was an English author and illustrator known for his picture books.
His books for children include Father Christmas (awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal), Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, Fungus the Bogeyman, The Snowman (a magical and completely wordless tale that was adapted into a beloved animated film), and The Man.
His books for older readers — disconcertingly illustrated in the same cartoony style — include Gentleman Jim, When the Wind Blows (a darkly comic take on nuclear holocaust from the point-of-view of a simple cheerful middle-aged couple), The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (a satire of The Falklands War), and Ethel & Ernest, a graphic biography of his own parents that turned into an animated film narrated by Briggs himself.
Works by Raymond Briggs with their own trope pages include:
- The Bear
- Father Christmas
- Fungus the Bogeyman
- The Man
- The Snowman
- When the Wind Blows
- Ethel & Ernest
Other works by Raymond Briggs provide examples of:
- Delusions of Eloquence: The protagonist of Gentleman Jim.
