For those of you
that don’t know who martin Handford is, which I’m guessing is just about everybody reading this blog post, he is the creator of the childrens picture book “Wheres Waldo”. Handford was born in Hampstead, London in 1956. He was a British children’s author that began to gain worldwide fame from his picture books called ”Find Wally”, known in the U.S. and Canada as “Wheres Waldo”. Handford began drawing as a child, creating stick figures on scrap paper. As an adult he began to work as a painter, he painted large crowds of people for clients that asked him to do so. These paintings were the basis for his world famous “I-spy” typed book. if you havent seen any of Handford’s Wheres waldo books, which i doubt anybody can honestly say that they have never seen one, they consist of a large seen of a cartoon town or marketplace type scene with a man wearing red and white hiding somewhere in the back round. Your objective is to simply find him. Handford became a mild celebrity, gaining worldwide fame beginning in 1985. By 1987, Handford was almost of celebrity status, known worldwide in 28 countries. His famous children’s novels and picture books are the basis for his fame and glory. He is not well know but he deserves to be in my top 10 list because if you don’t like “Wheres Waldo”, you are nuts. He is “tha man” simply because who else would ever create a book such as these.
