Raymond then “ stormed the Franklin County jail and seized weapons within the jail,” according to a motion filed later by Chief Civil Deputy Jeffrey Briggs from the county prosecutor’s office.

How Briggs would have felt about this is another matter. Among the items on display is a mock scroll declaring to his publicists that “Master Raymond Briggs (Craftsman)” will do “NO MORE INTERVIEWS” ...

Briggs didn’t believe in making books for a particular audience, saying “books are not missiles, you don’t aim them at anybody”. Some of his books are more suited to an adult readership.

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.

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.

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Raymond Briggs, who has died aged 88, was famous as the author of illustrated Christmas stories for children – with a difference ...

RIP Raymond, we will miss you very much. Pictured at top: Book covers for “The Snowman” and “When the Wind Blows,” and Briggs speaking with BBC Newsnight in 2017 ...

British children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creations include “The Snowman” and “Fungus the Bogeyman,” has died. He was 88.