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CHEZ ADDAMS.(Charles Addams' cartoons)(Brief Article)
Charles Addams was my first cartoon love. His dark yet strangely jolly view of life jumped out at me from the pages of my parents' New Yorkers, and when I discovered his books in the library--"Monster Rally," "Addams and Evil," "Drawn & Quartered," to name a few--I knew that I had found a kindred spirit. If you were a kid who preferred reading about cases of spontaneous combustion or studying photographs of people with bizarre medical conditions to going outside and "playing," perhaps you felt that way, too.
Humor often doesn't last from one season to the next, but Addams's cartoons are timeless. If there ever comes a day when one of his best-known illustrations--in which the Addams Family, standing on the roof of their house, pours a cauldron of boiling oil on the wholesome carolers below--is no longer funny, I don't want to know about it.
...- Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life.(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Harrington, Michael February 21, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Michael Harrington "Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life" by Linda...to be set free to wreak havoc. Charles Addams' cartoons are simultaneously...Linda H. Davis' biography "Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life." What...
- Charles Addams
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 25, 1965 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-25-1965 Charles Addams Ghoulish cartoonist Charles Addams wears a tuxedo at a celebrity event. Known...wear. evening wear. Ghoulish cartoonist Charles Addams wears a tuxedo at a celebrity event. Known...
- EDITOR'S CHOICE: "The Charles Addams Mother Goose," by Charles Addams (Simon &...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Herbert, Rosemary September 20, 2002 700+ words
Byline: ROSEMARY HERBERT Addams is known for creating the ghoulish Addams Family, but most of the cartoons in which they...marketed to adults. First published in 1967, "The Charles Addams Mother Goose" is his only children's book. This...
- New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Addams, 76, Dies
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post September 30, 1988 700+ words
Charles Addams, who drew ghoulish cartoons for the New Yorker magazine and whose work inspired the television comedy "The Addams Family," died yesterday in Manhattan. He was 76. Addams died in the emergency room at St. Clare's Hospital...
- Addams chronicle. (Charles Addams) (obituary)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report October 10, 1988 700+ words
Addams chronicle He once arrived at a costume party as a "defrocked...and in art as in life New Yorker magazine cartoonist Charles Addams exhibited a fascination with the cacabre. Addams, who died last week at 76, made his reputation with...
- Charles Addams; drew ghoulishly funny cartoons
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times September 30, 1988 700+ words
NEW YORK Charles Addams, a cartoonist whose macabre characters...room, was not immediately known. Mr. Addams, a native of Westfield, N.J., first...creatures, spawned the idea for "The Addams Family," a television show of the 1960s...
- CHARLES ADDAMS' LAST HALLOWEEN
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe M.R. Montgomery, Globe Staff October 25, 1988 700+ words
This week's New Yorker has what will, sadly, be Charles Addams' last Halloween cover, and, speaking of horror shows, Elizabeth Drew on the presidential campaign . . . less wordy than usual...
- The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul...
- Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch Donovan, Diane C. January 1, 2006 700+ words
The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg Iain Topliss Johns Hopkins University...Yorker will readily recognize the names of illustrators Addams, Steinberg and Topliss; but outside of the magazine...
