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In 2016 Google introduced us to the character Momo, a black cat on a mission to rescue her school, the Magic Cat Academy. I share these together because the two are a complete story. Influenced by the works of Edward Gorey and Aubrey Beardsley, Foster-Dimino gave a nod to each of the major characters in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, “I invite our users to see if they can identify 7 protagonists, 4 antagonists, and 1 who falls somewhere in-between,” wrote Foster-Dimino when the Doodle was released. In the original Doodle, you could advance each panel manually from the Google homepage.Ĭreated by Doodler, Sophia Foster-Dimino, this particular Doodle was one where I loved the styling of the artwork. The five panel Doodle follows Scooby and the gang as they try and solve the mystery of the weird Cheshire Cat-looking ghost. I grew up on Scooby Doo and when he made it into a web-comic-like Doodle in 2010 I was stoked. If it weren’t for the interactive element of the 2013 Doodle, this would have been my second choice.

The below image doesn’t capture the full experience, but you can still play the doodle here. Each combination would result in the witch being overtaken by smoke and when it cleared a mini-game was revealed.

Starring a witch reading from a Google spellbook, users could help create the witches brew by adding a combination of ingredients to her cauldron. In 2013 Google created a fully interactive Doodle for Halloween. Of all the doodles over the years it is still probably one of the darkest and for me truly captures the spooky vibe of Halloween. The 2008 doodle by Wes Craven is still one of my favorites. Since Google archives all of these I figured I’d take a trip down memory lane and share some of my favorites from over the years. In the early days, they look like nothing more than some clipart stacked on top of the Google logo, but in more recent years they have gone on to be more intricate and in some instances animated. Google Doodles, as they’ve come to be known, are the modified logos that appear at the top of Google’s search engine on holidays and special events. As I was going through old blog posts for a feature I’m launching this Friday called “From the Archives” I came across a brief post I wrote back in 2008 when Google launched a Halloween Doodle designed by Wes Craven.