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Best Google Doodles of all time Comic Riffs blog columnist Michael Cavna reveals his favorite Google art.
Les Paul
The playable, recordable "Les Paul guitar" logo spurred many users — including guitarist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave et al.) — to post their songs, which included many covers of the Beatles, Bob Marley and Led Zeppelin.
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Martha Graham
Inspired by the Martha Graham Dance Company, artist Mike Dutton and animator Ryan Woodward collaborated on one of Google's most elegant animations.
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John Lennon
A fan of the late Beatle, artist Mike Dutton wrote of this animated Doodle: "The old saying, 'A picture is worth a thousand words' still rings true, so I hope a moving picture will help me adequately — and simply — thank John for the memories."
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Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury's Queen bandmate Brian May wrote upon the posting of this animated music video: Freddie "gave people proof that a man could achieve his dreams — made them feel that through him they were overcoming their own shyness, and becoming the powerful figure of their ambitions."
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Jim Henson
Puppeteer and producer Brian Henson — son of Muppet creator Jim Henson — worked with Google to create this interactive Doodle. Wrote Henson the Younger: Every day for him was joyously filled with the surprises of other people’s ideas.
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Charles Addams
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams was celebrated with his creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky characters that found new generations through TV and film.
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Art Clokey
Google worked with son Joe Clokey and stop-motion veteran Anthony Scott ("Coraline") to create this animated celebration of "Gumby" creator Art Clokey.
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Mary Blair
The Disney artist lent “explosion of color” style to such ‘50s animated films as “Alice in Wonderland,” “Cinderella” and “Peter Pan,” as well as Disney theme-park rides like It's a Small World.
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Diego Rivera
The panoramic Doodle to celebrate the Mexican muralist reflects not only the arc of the artist's career, but also a span of his nation's unfolding history.
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Alexander Calder
This animated Doodle ripples with fitting invention: It pays tribute to American abstractionist Alexander Calder, who is credited with inventing the mobile. And this is Google’s first Doodle that completely uses a HTML canvas (requiring a more modern browser).
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Will Eisner
Artist/scholar Scott McCloud helped Google pay tribute to one of the giants of comics: "The Spirit" creator Will Eisner, who also popularized the graphic narrative with such works as "A Contract With God ... ."
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Richard Scarry
The Doodle captures the frenetic world of the furry creatures created by the beloved children's author.
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Pac-Man
One of Google's most popular Doodles ever let viewers actually play Pac-Man in the logo, upon the classic video game's 30th anniversary.
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Jules Verne
Down periscope! This nautical logo, to honor the sci-fi adventure writer who was in a league of his own, let the viewer dive deep into the colorful undersea graphics.
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Stanislaw Lem
Drawing inspiration from his series of stories titled The Cyberiad, Google artist Sophia Foster-Dimino created this dazzling line-drawing animation to honor great sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem ("Solaris"). (Note: This Doodle did not appear in the United States.)
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Mark Twain
To celebrate the first great uniquely American novelist -- that headwater of all American fiction -- Google paints a tribute to Tom Sawyer's world and Twain's boyhood Hannibal, Mo.
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Burning Man
The logo that launched it all: This very first Doodle was a public way to let viewers know that Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were off to the 1998 Burning Man Festival for a few days.
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G-balls
The interactive mass of kinetic and colorful balls -- dubbed "Google Balls" by some -- was a provocative mystery logo that prompted many "What does it mean?" theories in 2010. The answer: an eye-catching way to trumpet its new Google Instant search.
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Dilbert
In 2002, Google memorably turned over its logo real-estate to cartoonist Scott Adams and his Silicon Valley icon of a cubicle dweller, Dilbert.
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Michael Jackson
Two months after Michael Jackson's sudden death, Google saluted the moonwalking "King of Pop" with an elegant Doodle, on what would have been MJ's 51st birthday.
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Charlie Chaplin
To celebrate what would have been Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday, Google outdid itself by creating an old-timey silent film as homage. Google's first live-action video doodle was created by Doodle team leader Ryan Germick, who says Chaplin is one of his creative heroes.
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Buckyball
Google's animated logo saluted the Buckyball, that architectural wonder as strong as the legacy of its creator, Buckminster Fuller.
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