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Raymond Briggs, who died on August 9 aged 88, transformed the way we see and value the strip cartoon and graphic novel in this country. Briggs’ great achievement was to make the form intellectually respectable through telling stories about seemingly ordinary characters, which were rendered skilfully in the egalitarian medium…

The author’s wife Jean died from leukaemia in 1973.

Prominent literary figures and famous faces have paid tribute to Briggs and shared how his work impacted their lives.

Charming and melancholy, Briggs’s books are classics for a reason

With the news that The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs has died aged 88, we're looking back on a classic Scottish advert inspired by the legendary author and illustrator's most iconic work.

Author-illustrator known for The Snowman and Father Christmas whose books often explored the quiet heroism of ordinary lives

When the film version of Briggs’s melancholy masterpiece was first screened in 1982, Britons clutched it to their hearts – where it has stayed ever since

With no siblings or children of his own, Raymond Briggs spent a large part of his life struggling with loneliness and grief