The Ultimate Wally-Watcher Collection

Description

Ready yourself for hours of searching with this ultimate collection, featuring the seven extraordinary Where's Wally? classics, with special extra searches inside every book. Line them all up to reveal Wally walking along the spines! Inside the slipcase you'll find: Where's Wally? Where's Wally Now? Where's Wally? The Fantastic Journey Where's Wally? In Hollywood Where's Wally? The Wonder Book Where's Wally? The Great Picture Hunt Where's Wally? The Great Paper Chase

Martin Handford spent much of his childhood drawing and his earliest influences were cinema epics and playing with toy soldiers. At art college he continued to draw what he calls "busy and militarily correct battle scenes" which led to his job as a freelance illustrator specialising in drawing crowd scenes for numerous clients. Martin now gathers his inspiration from a huge variety of sources; films, visiting museums and art galleries, reading comics and books, and collecting ephemera and trivia. He is fascinated by crowds, and is attracted to their vibes, patterns and details - especially humour; "I love their movement and energy." Gradually, from all this meticulous research, the inspiration for a picture emerges, which Martin embellishes with his own ideas to create astonishing scenes. Each picture takes Martin many months to draw. "As I work my way through a picture, I add Wally when I come to what I feel is a good place to hide him," he explains.