EDWARD GOREY GOOGLE
DOODLE: Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey!
Born on Feb 22, 1925, Gorey would have been eighty-eight
now. Although my wife is not a fan, I always got his drawings and tales oddly
alluring. Horrible things occurred, occasionally for no discernible reason.
Sometimes, nothing occurred. Compared to former picture books, these were
strange and terrific things, something you were not sure was meant for kids
despite outward appearances.
Edward Gorey expired
in 2000 at the age of seventy-five, but naturally he lives on, both in his own
books and in the works of whole the artists he inspired. Live near Boston? It
might be worth establishing the drive out to the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth.
Google celebrates Gorey’s birthday with a doodle: Gorey
himself and the tentative Guest grace the big G, with an assortment of other
characters in the others.
