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The Man is a graphic novella for children, written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs and published by Julia MacRae Books in 1992. It tells the humorous story of a boy, John, who is visited by the titular Man, a minuscule human who arrives in the boy's bedroom unclothed and hungry. After getting over his initial shock, the boy starts to take ...
Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) [1] 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.
The Man is a 1972 American political drama film directed by Joseph Sargent [1] and starring James Earl Jones.Jones plays Douglass Dilman, the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, who succeeds to the presidency through a series of unforeseeable events, thereby becoming both the first African-American president and the first wholly unelected one.
Stan Lee (1922–2018), legendary comic book creator nicknamed "Stan the Man" Ric Flair (born 1949), retired American professional wrestler whose catchphrases included, "To be 'the man', you gotta beat the man!" The Man, a later stage name used briefly by former American professional wrestler Big Boss Man (Ray Traylor, 1963–2004)
The idea of a sequel had been resisted by Raymond Briggs for several years, but he gave his permission for the film in 2012. [24] Howard Blake was one of the few crew members not asked to return; he was allegedly asked to "send a demo", which he refused citing the success of the original score. [25]
The Man is a 2005 American buddy cop comedy film starring Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, and Miguel Ferrer. The Man was directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried, from a screenplay by Jim Piddock , Margaret Oberman and Stephen Carpenter , and based on a story by Piddock and Oberman.
Ethel & Ernest is a 2016 British animated biographical film directed by Roger Mainwood.The film is based on the 1998 graphic memoir of the same name written by Raymond Briggs, and follows Briggs' parents, Ethel and Ernest, through their period of marriage from the 1920s to their deaths in the 1970s.
The animated film is an adaptation of the children's picture book Granpa, written and illustrated by John Burningham and published by Jonathan Cape in 1984. Burningham won the Kurt Maschler Award, or "the Emil", from Maschler publishers and BookTrust, which annually recognised the author(s) of one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each ...