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COMIC ARTIST

Raymond Briggs

1934 - 2022

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Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Briggs has received more than 1,387,862 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Briggs is the 139th most popular comic artist, the 4,418th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 6th most popular British Comic Artist.

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  • 43.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Raymond Briggs ranks 139 out of 174. Before him are Seishi Kishimoto, Hiroyuki Takei, R. K. Laxman, Moyoco Anno, Kouta Hirano, and Tooru Fujisawa. After him are Harvey Kurtzman, Inio Asano, Mort Walker, Lynn Okamoto, Guy Delisle, and Momoko Sakura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Raymond Briggs ranks 421. Before him are Stanton T. Friedman, Piers Anthony, Florence Henderson, Ayla Erduran, Guillermo Sepúlveda, and Victor Argo. After him are Corey Allen, Alan A'Court, Renée Richards, Carmine Caridi, Jackie Pretorius, and Gerry Hitchens. Among people deceased in 2022, Raymond Briggs ranks 352. Before him are Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık, Galina Shamrai, Nicholas Evans, Shivkumar Sharma, Alexandra Zabelina, and Carlo Galli. After him are Robert Morse, Ri Yong-ho, Pat Carroll, Kjell Espmark, Marietta Giannakou, and Scott Hall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Raymond Briggs ranks 4,418 out of 7,765. Before him are Tony Cascarino (1962), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Ray Wilkins (1956), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), Una O'Connor (1880), and Orlando Figes (1959). After him are John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Kevin Warwick (1954), Pat Barker (1943), Dave Mason (1946), Colin Baker (1943), and David James (1970).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United Kingdom

Among comic artists born in United Kingdom, Raymond Briggs ranks 6. Before him are Alan Moore (1953), Quentin Blake (1932), David Lloyd (1950), Dave Gibbons (1949), and Jamie Hewlett (1968). After him are John Byrne (1950), Mark Millar (1969), Ronald Searle (1920), Garth Ennis (1970), Warren Ellis (1968), and Dave McKean (1963).

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