Shardlake, Bridgerton season 3 and the new Raymond Briggs exhibition should all be on your radar this week. Disney/Liam Daniel/Neftlix/ Andrew Hasson /Alamy May 17, 2024 Bridgerton is back and still frothy, but developing a more grown-up attitude – what you should see and read this week Jane Wright, The Conversation Much to enjoy as Bridgerton returns, a Tudor murder mystery intrigues, the International Booker prize is imminent, the National Gallery is 200 and the genius of Raymond Briggs is on display.
Grumpy Santa in Raymond Briggs’s classic Father Christmas. Raymond Briggs / Leigh Simpson May 9, 2024 Raymond Briggs: new exhibition reveals bloomin’ brilliant life and work of much-loved cartoonist Rebecca Palmer, Anglia Ruskin University This beautifully realised exhibition reveals the wit, warmth and artistic skill that made Raymond Briggs so beloved by children and adults alike.
Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy August 11, 2022 Three Raymond Briggs books that helped make the graphic novel respectable Matthew Edgar, Sheffield Hallam University Much of his work was imbued with a sense of the end, so it is fitting to look back at three of his best works to mark the illustrator’s passing