As winter draws in, and people look for low-cost fun things to do, a visit to the library is among the most economic things to do in Cambridgeshire. In warm and friendly surroundings, you can find a good book – either printed, audio or e-books, a free game or online access or join a special activity like a reading group. a b c Where's Waldo?, by Cyndi Stivers, 14 December 1990, Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 8 February 2010. With more than 150 copies of the series including Where’s Wally?, Where’s Wally? in Hollywood and Where’s Wally now? – by author and illustrator Martin Hanford – listed among missing titles, it tops the list of books that the county council’s library staff want to recover. 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). 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 ]

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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 library service initiative to promote the return of missing books has discovered the ‘Where’s Wally’ series accounts for the highest number of missing titles across Cambridgeshire Libraries.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). 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. a b "Where's the brains behind Wally?", Paul Bignell, The Independent, 13 November 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2017. Last week we launched our BeWinterWise campaign to join up all the activities, events and advice to keep people safe, well and active during the winter months,” said Cllr Tom Sanderson, Chair of the Communities, Social Mobility and Inclusion Committee. “And clearly all the activities you find in our libraries are really important to that as the nights draw in and people can feel lonely and isolated.