But he was a hard worker, and spent a lot of time creating the success of the Mr Men. He loved puns, practical jokes and daft humour. He was really rather ebullient, and had a terrific sense of humour, that I think comes out in the stories. "He was 6ft 5in, so very tall and commanded a room. "He was a larger than life character in all respects," Adam says of his father. He had a long-held ambition to draw a comic-strip, wanting to emulate the likes of Snoopy and Charlie Brown in Charles Schultz's Peanuts cartoons. Adam Hargreaves with some of the characters.
One of those perks was a very nice house."įather-of-four Roger had long harboured ambitions of quitting his job in London and giving up the commute. "During the 1970s my dad became a wealthy man," explains Adam. When the house was put on the market three years ago, it carried a £5.5 million price tag.īut it was also there that tragedy would forever change their lives in a way no one could have imagined. It was a clear sign of the wealth the family had amassed due to the phenomenon Roger had created. It would take the Hargreaves family on a remarkable journey which would culminate in them moving, in 1982, into a sprawling Grade II*-listed farmhouse, complete with 220 acres of working farm (primarily beef and arable in case you were wondering), in the village of Cowden, in the Sevenoaks district, and sat on the Kent and East Sussex border.
Mr Tickle - the character which started the phenomenon. With many other characters and sales to soon follow. Within three years, they had sold a million copies. In August 1971, Messrs Tickle, Greedy, Sneezy, Bump and Nosey appeared on bookshelves for the first time. And if you could do a tickle you could do all the other emotions." "I think he could see suddenly that he could turn Mr Tickle into a character and then write a story about it. "I think that sparked off a chain of thought in my dad, that you could personify a human emotion or characteristic," Adam explains.
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