{"id":11180,"date":"2022-08-12T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2022-08-12T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:17:15","slug":"three-raymond-briggs-books-that-helped-make-the-graphic-novel-respectable-by-matthew-edgar-for-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/three-raymond-briggs-books-that-helped-make-the-graphic-novel-respectable-by-matthew-edgar-for-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"“Three Raymond Briggs books that helped make the graphic novel respectable” by Matthew Edgar for The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the death of Raymond Briggs on 9 August, visual communication lecturer Matthew Edgar<\/a> has written an article for The Conversation\u00a0<\/a>about how the illustrator transformed the way we see and value of the strip cartoon and graphic novel in this country.<\/p>\n

Edgar says: “Briggs\u2019 great achievement was to make the form intellectually respectable through telling stories about seemingly ordinary characters, which were rendered skilfully in the egalitarian medium of coloured pencil.”<\/p>\n

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Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the death of Raymond Briggs on 9 August, visual communication lecturer Matthew Edgar has written an article for The Conversation\u00a0about how the illustrator transformed the way we see and value of the strip cartoon and graphic novel in this country. Edgar says: “Briggs\u2019 great achievement was to make the form intellectually respectable through telling stories about seemingly ordinary characters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20701,"featured_media":11181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1648,1180,869,1901,1900,382],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admrc","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration","tag-matthew-edgar","tag-raymond-briggs","tag-the-conversation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/08\/eb025fd4-635e-058c-9c24-8aef817d9629.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2Uk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4502,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/offset-dublin-pam-bowman-matt-edgar\/","url_meta":{"origin":11180,"position":0},"title":"Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar’s films ‘Typography Now’ and ‘Punk & Pageant’ added to lineup for Offset Dublin","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"15\/03\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Films by Sheffield Hallam University's Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar have been added to the lineup of Offset Dublin creative conference, to be screened on the main stage on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 March. 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