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  • Edward Gorey’s Life Celebrated With Google Doodle

    Edward Gorey’s Life Celebrated With Google Doodle

    Edward Gorey is one of the most influential artists and writers of our time. His birthday also happens to be today. His birthday was celebrated by Google Australia yesterday, but now those of us on the other side of the International Date Line get to celebrate.

    Edward Gorey was born on February 22, 1925, and he died on April 15, 2000 at the age of 75. Over the course of his life, he published over 100 books featuring his distinct art style that could best be classified as gothic, but he himself labeled his style as “literary nonsense.”

    Today’s Google Doodle isn’t interactive, but it does a great job of copping Gorey’s distinctive style. Google’s Knowledge Graph is in full force as well. Interestingly enough, the first person listed under the “People also search for” section is Tim Burton. The director’s early work, especially Edward Scissorhands, was obviously inspired by Gorey’s work.

    If you want to learn more about Gorey, why not take a trip out to his home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It’s been turned into the Edwary Gorey House Museum. The house will open on April 18, and feature a new exhibit.

  • Edward Gorey Google Doodle Celebrates Eccentric Artist

    Edward Gorey, who enjoyed a wonderful career as the artist of several dark little characters–and cats–is being celebrated with a Google Doodle in honor of what would have been his 88th birthday.

    Having written/illustrated more than 100 books, Gorey found a loyal following over the years for his use of pen-and-ink sketches, which often included cats, Victorian-era characters, and doomed children. His illustrations were often tinged with dark humor and have been noted as inspiration for countless creative people, including musicians Nine Inch Nails and writer Caitlin R. Kiernan. He himself was inspired by many varied expressions of art and once said that “Batman: The Animated Series” had a profound influence on his work at one point in time.

    Although children played a rather large part in his work, Gorey was unmarried and had none of his own, and expressed no interest in starting a family. In fact, his sexuality often came into question and was swiftly avoided most of the time. It’s reported that he did address it a few times, however, such as in an interview where he said, “I’m neither one thing nor the other particularly. I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something … I’ve never said that I was gay and I’ve never said that I wasn’t … what I’m trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else.” He also spoke briefly about his orientation in the book “The Strange Case Of Edward Gorey”.

    Gorey illustrated books for other authors, as well; the work he did for late writer John Bellairs is haunting and lovely, evoking images of spooky mansions and the sense of dark mystery that pervaded all of Bellairs’ work.

    Several years ago it was announced that Gorey’s book “The Doubtful Guest” would be put into production for a film, but according to IMDB there’s very little information about it. There is, however, a release date of November 15th, 2013.

    The Gorey Doodle will be available in the U.S. tomorrow, February 22nd.

    Images: Wikimedia Commons, TagandStation.com

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