G is for Google, whose Doodles we crave. It's also for Gorey, 12 years in his grave.
Edward Gorey, pen-and-ink artist extraordinaire, would have turned 88 on Friday (he died in 2000). Google has honored the illustrator's birthday with a Gorey-style Doodle, incorporating his characters and employing a Gorey-style color scheme.
Gorey himself is featured in the doodle sketching one of his earliest characters, the Doubtful Guest, while two of his ever-present cats slumber on the Google "G".
Gorey wrote and illustrated more than 100 books over his 50-year career, featuring a range of bleak and darkly humorous characters in gothic locations inspired by his Cape Cod surroundings. Perhaps the best known of his works: The Ghastlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book in which 26 children meet a range of grisly ends.
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