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Martin Handford is best known for creating the popular children's book series Where's Waldo?. He has written and illustrated over 30 books, including the Where's Waldo? series, which has sold over 70 million copies worldwide. Handford was born in Hampstead, London, England, and attended the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a freelance illustrator, working for magazines and advertising agencies. In 1987, Handford created the Where's Waldo? series, which quickly became a global phenomenon. Handford has won numerous awards for his work, including the British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year in 1988 and the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year in 1989. He has also been inducted into the Licensing Hall of Fame. As of 2021, Martin Handford's net worth is estimated to be roughly $20 million.

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Occupation Children's author and illustrator
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 27 September, 1956
Birthday 27 September
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2007

In 2007, Handford sold the rights to Where's Wally? to the Entertainment Rights Group, the world's biggest independent owner of children's brands. He is said to have made £2.5m in this sale.

2005

A film based on the Where's Wally? series of books was planned for filming in 2005 by Nickelodeon Movies but was cancelled due to a management change at Paramount Pictures.

1987

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 an animated TV series.

1986

In 1986, Handford was asked by his art director at Walker Books to draw a character with peculiar features so that his pictures of crowds had a focal point. After much thinking, he came up with the idea of "Wally", a world traveller and time travel aficionado who always dresses in red and white. Wally is joined on most of his travels by his friend, Wenda, who wears clothes with the same colours as Wally's, and by an evil character named Odlaw (Waldo spelled backwards) who dresses in yellow and black.

1981

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.

1956

Martin Handford (born 27 September 1956) is an English children's author and illustrator 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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