Today’s Google Doodle features some of Art Clokey’s most famous characters including Gumby (the original clayboy), Pokey (Gumby’s best friend and sidekick), the Blockheads (‘J’ and ‘G’ – the mischievous troublemakers), Tara (Gumby’s girlfriend) and Prickle (Gumby’s good friend).
The logo is in honor of what would have been Clokey’s 90th birthday today.
Arthur “Art” Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.
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