Edward Gorey 2024 Mini Wall Calendar

Advice from a crosshatched, glue-pot-toting gent of questionable intent? Yes, please, if the creator of said fellow is Edward Gorey! Goreys characters regularly find themselves in odd, even disastrous, circumstances. Theyve seen their fair share of mishaps and are wiser as a result (if they havent met their unfortunate ends, of course). Now, theyre passing along their advice in this calendars assortment of images from Goreys Verse Advice. Weaving tales as unsettling as they are hilarious, Gorey paired ominous humor with vaguely Victorian style, whether he was designing stage sets and costumes or writing plays and books. Occasionally, though, he expressed a fondness for the little things in life. In 1993, the New Yorker first ran Goreys Verse Advice, a series of 12 images printed in a four-page spread. From home improvement to social interaction, the advice in these illustrations is quite quotidian.