Handford had been drawing since he was a boy,
and was particularly fond of viewing and drawing crowd scenes.
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The iconic, elusive man in the
red-and-white striped shirt was first hidden away in 1987 by British illustrator Martin Handford.
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Handford says there's no formula for finding Wally, but
that doesn't mean scientists haven't considered him an interesting point of study.
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After three years of art school, Handford started working as a freelance illustrator, drawing crowd
scenes for a variety of magazines and advertising companies.
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The round glasses and pom-pom on top of Wally's
head were definitive of Wally's personality, which Handford described as something like a“train spotter”-
a phrase used in England in the 1980s to describe someone who was a bit daft.