Where's Wally?
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Martin Handford created the album cover for The Vapors' 1981 album Magnets. The cover features an assassination scene which forms the shape of an eye. a b c Where's Waldo?, by Cyndi Stivers, 14 December 1990, Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
As an adult, Handford worked for three years in an insurance office (Crusader Insurance Company) to pay for his studies at UCA ( University for the Creative Arts) formerly KIAD (Kent Institute of Art and Design) in Maidstone, Kent. [4] After graduating, Martin worked as a freelance illustrator specialising in drawing crowd scenes for numerous clients. [1] Career [ edit ]a b "Where's the brains behind Wally?", Paul Bignell, The Independent, 13 November 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
The style of art executed by Handford is an example of " Wimmelbilderbuch" drawings, originally popularised by Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Hans Jürgen Press. Handford became a minor celebrity with the success of Where's Wally?. The Where's Wally? trademark sold in 28 different countries. Beginning in 1987, Handford produced a total of seven "classic" Where's Wally? books, but his character was branched out into other products, such as notebooks, pillows, posters, video games and many others. There was even a syndicated comic strip as well as two animated TV series (one in 1991 and another in 2019).
Martin Handford (born 27 September 1956) [1] [2] is a British children's author and illustrator from London who gained worldwide fame in the mid-1980s with his Where's Wally? creation (known as Where's Waldo? in North America).
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