Daisy Dunn

The grumpy genius of Raymond Briggs

No one captures the ambivalence that many of us feel towards Christmas better than this master illustrator

The winter’s tale: Santa touching down on Briggs’s childhood terrace in Wimbledon Park in his 1973 book Father Christmas 
issue 19 December 2020
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