So great: T. S. Eliot’s iconic vintage verses about cats, illustrated and signed by the one and only Edward Gorey.
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For Edward Gorey’s 88th birthday today, his beloved alphabet of misadventures, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, adapted in animated GIFs.
More grimly whimsical Goreyana here.
Edward Gorey’s 1960 illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Gorey was born on this day in 1925.
Happy birthday, Edward Gorey! Celebrate with The Gashlycrumb Tinies, his beloved 1963 alphabet book of grim misadventures.
In 1960, beloved mid-century pen-and-ink slinger Edward Gorey, born 88 years ago today, illustrated H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds – two classic masters of the macabre and wonderful, together at last.
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
Beloved eccentric mid-century illustrator Edward Gorey in a letter, part of this collection of famous correspondence
12 years ago today, the world lost Edward Gorey – remember him with his superb, irreverent black-and-white vintage illustrations.
