Where's Waldo / Where's Wally

adam

The name is different depending on the country in which it's published by the adventures are the same.



I was a *HUGE* fan of these books when I was a kid and was going to buy all of the books back in December but figured I'd wait until I had all of my Christmas shopping done.

My girlfriends mom got me Where's Waldo NOW? and I look at it a few times a day. I can't believe how much detail is going on in those books - I swear every square inch of the pages is telling a new, hilarious, story.

Anyone have fond memories of those books? It seems anyone who walks by my desk picks up the book to share a memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_%28Where%27s_Waldo%29

JDinges

Yeah I definetly remember the series, loved it as a kid. i'll probably end up trying to buy newer copies for my kids. Use to sit up at night just looking over all the crazy things going on in each page.

Xenobond

He's so good at hiding.

AstroZombie

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Found him!

Although it took me a bit longer than finding him in the image brome posted.

Nerd Groupie

i used to have that NES wheres Waldo. the color pallette made it a bit hard to find him. plus the fact that he is like 12 pixels makes it near impossible.

Slum

Man, I loved those books. I used to have a huge stack of all of them when I was a kid.

danr

i'd like to know whether the guy used studio techniques to build up his crowd scenes (like from the pre-photoshop days) or if he really did just start drawing from the back row downwards. Totally bloody impressive whatever though, i loved them as a kid, could read a single picture for hours ...

Asmuel

Yea those books were always everyones favourite at the school library when I was a kid, they were awsome.

Anyones seen this one? I know someone who got it for Xmas
http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Bin-Laden-Xavier-Waterkeyn/dp/1741103320

adam

danr he paints them with water colours and it takes about 8 weeks per 2 pages.