The Man (comics)

The Man is a graphic novella for children, written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs and published by Julia MacRae Books in 1992.

The story follows their relationship over the next few days between John and 'Man', with the Man showing himself to be demanding, bossy and messy, but nevertheless a bond forms between the pair.

Occasionally the dialogue and drawings are interspersed so that speech bubbles surround certain lines of text.

For both writing and illustrating The Man Briggs won the 1992 Kurt Maschler Award, or "the Emil".

The award annually (1982 to 1999) recognised one British "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other.