Raymond Briggs, yemwe adapanga "The Snowman", wamwalira ali ndi zaka 88

Wojambula-wojambula waku Britain Raymond Briggs, yemwe wapanga ntchito zambiri zomwe zalimbikitsa zakale zamakanema monga. The Snowman e Ethel ndi Ernestadamwalira Lachiwiri 9 August ndi chibayo ali ndi zaka 88. "Tikudziwa kuti mabuku a Raymond adakondedwa ndikukhudzidwa ndi anthu mamiliyoni ambiri padziko lonse lapansi, omwe angamve chisoni kumva nkhaniyi," banja lake lidagawana lero m'mawu ake, pomwe adathokozanso ogwira ntchito ku 'Overton Ward ku. Royal Sussex County Hopsital, komwe Briggs adakhala milungu yake yomaliza.

Mafilimu a Lupus, omwe adasinthiratu ntchito ya Briggs kukhala makanema ojambula pamanja, adagawana mawu achipepeso pa Twitter:

Ndife achisoni kwambiri kudziwa kuti Raymond Briggs anamwalira dzulo. Zinali zolimbikitsa kwambiri kwa ife komanso zolimbikitsa kwambiri pamene tinkapanga The Snowman ndi The Snowdog ndi Ethel & Ernest. Anali munthu wachifundo komanso wowolowa manja komanso wokonda kusewera. RIP Raimondo. pic.twitter.com/s6JeFzQ2xY

- Mafilimu a Lupus (@LupusFilms) 10 August 2022

Briggs anabadwa pa January 18, 1934 ku Wimbledon, ndipo anayamba kujambula zithunzithunzi ali wamng’ono ndipo anapita kukaphunzira kupenta ku Wimbledon School of Art ndi typography ku London’s Central School of Art and Design. Atalembetsedwa muutumiki wadziko lonse ngati wopanga ma signature koyambirira kwa zaka za m'ma 50, Briggs adapitiliza maphunziro ake openta ku University College London's Slade School of Fine Art, adamaliza maphunziro ake mu 1957.

Posakhalitsa adagwira ntchito yojambula mabuku a ana, makamaka mu 1958 Cornish Fairy anthology. Pietro ndi Piskies (wolemba a Ruth Manning-Sanders), ndipo adadziwika bwino ndikuyamikiridwa pamalo achiwiri pa Mendulo ya Kate Greenway ya 1964 (potengera nyimbo za nazale. Mtengo wa Fi Fo Fum) ndi kupambana mu 1966 kwa Chuma cha Mayi Goose, yomwe ili ndi zithunzi zopitilira 800 za Briggs. Panthawiyi, adayambanso kuphunzitsa zojambulajambula ku Brighton School of Art, komwe adaphunzitsa mpaka 1986.

Kupuma kwakukulu koyamba kwa Briggs monga wolemba-illustrator kunali mitu iwiri yatchuthi yomwe inatulutsidwa ndi Hamish Hamilton ndi St. Nick yokwiya yomwe inatulutsidwa mu 1973 ndi '75, yomwe inaphatikizidwa mu 4 Channel 1991 yapadera. Santa kilausi, yopangidwa ndi John Coates. Buku lina la zithunzi za Briggs Hamilton, Bowa Munthu Wakuda (1977) za chilombo chamagulu ogwira ntchito, adasinthidwa kukhala ma hybrids awiri apadera a magawo atatu; yoyamba mu 2004 (BBC) ndipo yomaliza ya Sky1 mu 2015, yosimbidwa ndi Andy Serkis ndipo idapangidwa ndi studio yake ya mo-cap The Imaginarium.

Mwina ntchito yodziwika bwino ya wojambulayo, The Snowman linasindikizidwa mu 1978 (Hamilton / Random House ku US) Briggs adanena kuti atagwira ntchito "kudzera mumatope, matope ndi mawu" Bowa, ankafuna chinachake "choyera, chabwino, chatsopano komanso chosalankhula komanso chofulumira". Zithunzi za krayoni za pensulo za mabuku zasinthidwa mokhulupirika kukhala kanema wa TV wopambana wa BAFTA, Academy Award-osankhidwa theka la ola mu 1982. Filimuyi inapangidwa ndi Coates for TVC ndipo inatsogoleredwa ndi Dianne Jackson, moyang'aniridwa ndi Jimmy T. . Murakami.

The Snowman imakhalabe yapatchuthi yokondedwa m'mawonekedwe ake onse komanso makanema ojambula, ndipo adapanga mndandanda wa BFI wa Makanema Opambana 100 a TV aku Britain mu 2000. Channel 25's 4 mphindi yapadera. The snowman ndi chipale galuopangidwa ndi Lupus Films, adatulutsidwa mu 2012 kukondwerera zaka 30 za filimu yoyambirira ndipo adadzipereka kukumbukira Coates, yemwe. wakufa miyezi ingapo isanachitike.

M'zaka za m'ma 80, Briggs adayamba kukulitsa ntchito yake ku mitu ya anthu akuluakulu, monga tawonera Gentleman Jim (1980) ndi zotsatira zake, Pamene mphepo ikuwomba (1982), yomwe imalingalira za kuukira kwa nyukiliya ku Soviet kudzera m'maso mwa banja lopuma pantchito kumidzi yaku England ndipo idapangidwa kukhala filimu yojambula mu 1986, motsogozedwa ndi Murakami, yopangidwa ndi Coates komanso nyenyezi Peggy Ashcroft ndi John Mills.

Mu 1998 adatulutsa Briggs Ethel & Ernest: nkhani yowona kudzera ku Cape Jomnathan. Buku logwira mtima kwambiri limafotokoza mbiri ya makolo a Briggs - Ernest, wobereketsa mkaka, ndi Ethel, yemwe kale anali mdzakazi wa dona - akusonkhanitsa nthawi zosaiŵalika kuyambira zaka zawo pamodzi kuyambira msonkhano wawo woyamba mu 1928 mpaka imfa yawo mu 1971. anapambana Mphotho ya Buku la Britain ndipo anapangidwa kukhala filimu yojambula pamanja Ethel ndi Ernest mu 2016, opangidwa ndi Lupus Films, Melusine ndi Nsalu mphaka, motsogoleredwa ndi Roger Mainwood ndi nyenyezi Brenda Blethyn ndi Jim Broadbent.

Briggs Children's Books Chimbalangondo e Ivor Wosaoneka adasinthidwanso ngati makanema apakanema akanema mu 1998 ndi 2001 motsatana. Zolemba kuchokera pa sofa, inatulutsidwa ndi label ya crowdfunding Unbound mu 2015. Pazaka zonse za ntchito yake, Briggs adagonjetsa Kate Greenaway Medals awiri (kuphatikiza othamanga awiri), British Book Awards awiri ndi zina zambiri. Adalowetsedwa mu British Comic Awards Hall of Fame mu 2012 ndipo adatchedwa Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) mu 2017.

Wolemba mochedwa adatsogozedwa ndi mkazi wake, Jean (1973), ndi mnzake wakale, Liz (2015). Pa nthawi ya imfa yake, ankakhala ku Westmeston, Sussex.

[Kwachokera: BBC, The New York Times]