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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #320 on: February 08, 2011, 09:50:10 pm »
Thanks, Roland. I didn't realize it was interactive. So cool!


Me neither!  :laugh:


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #321 on: February 11, 2011, 04:49:58 am »
again a new one


Thomas Edison's 164th

me thinks they're just 'celebrating' any ol' thing - 164th birthday? Is that a square root of somethin?

I like the way they got the light turning on though ...
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #322 on: February 14, 2011, 02:41:34 am »
Happy Valentine's Day


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #323 on: February 19, 2011, 02:02:05 am »

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #324 on: March 06, 2011, 11:21:10 am »

From The Washington Post:

WILL EISNER'S GOOGLE LOGO: Doodle marks 'The Spirit' creator's 94th birthday
By Michael Cavna

For comics fans, today's image may well be Google's greatest "Doodle" yet.

The latest Google logo celebrates what would have been the 94th birthday of one of the cartooning world's towering legends, Will Eisner. The home-page "doodle" -- as the company calls each of them -- features Eisner's iconic character The Spirit, as well as the Bronx tenement buildings that the pioneering cartoonist rendered so elegantly in his ever-influential '70s graphic novel "A Contract With God (and Other Tenement Stories)."

"Eisner was one of the first cartoonists to understand the power of visual education, and wrote eloquently about the process of making comics in 'Comics and Sequential Art' (1985) and 'Graphic Storytelling' (1996)," writes noted comics artist/author Scott McCloud, who was invited by Google to remember his mentor and help design the doodle.

"For most of his career," McCloud writes, "Eisner was years, even decades, ahead of the curve."

Eisner's masked Central City criminologist The Spirit -- aka Denny Colt -- debuted in American newspapers in 1940 and ran for 12 years as part of "the Spirit Section." Among the great talents who worked on "The Spirit" -- which also was published in comic-book form -- were Pulitzer-winning Village Voice cartoonist/author Jules Feiffer, MAD co-founder Wally Wood and Plastic Man creator Jack Cole.

In 2008, Hollywood tapped Eisner's Wildwood Cemetery crimefighter for "The Spirit," starring Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson.

The Brooklyn-born William Erwin "Will" Eisner died in 2005. The industry's esteemed Eisner Awards -- handed out each year at San Diego Comic-Con International -- pay tribute to his legend and inspiration.

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #325 on: March 08, 2011, 02:35:40 am »
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #326 on: March 08, 2011, 06:23:22 pm »
Fran - and the rest who contribute to this thread regularly - thank you!  It's one of my very favorites.

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #327 on: March 24, 2011, 04:21:47 am »

Harry Houdini's 137th anniversary
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #328 on: March 31, 2011, 04:11:30 am »

(inventor) Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday
(he of the bunsen burner 'fame')
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #329 on: March 31, 2011, 04:46:12 pm »
I remember bunsen burners from school!

Didn't know that "bunsen" was a name, though.

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