![]() In 1937, a few regular characters began to emerge. Without his wit to put them in their proper light, the things he drew might have been chilling, disturbing, even horrifying but when they came from him they were funny. ![]() As early as 1935, when his cartoons started appearing in The New Yorker - perhaps America's most prestigious humor magazine - he displayed an ability to get big laughs out of truly jarring situations and images. public that when, in 1964, word went out that there was going to be a TV series based on the cartoons of Charles Addams, everyone knew exactly what to expect.Īddams was a cartoonist with a macabre sense of humor, who delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and gruesome with the mundane and ordinary. For a quarter of a century, theĬharacters didn't even have names. It didn't appear regularly, in a particular part of the magazine, with its own headline - in fact, it didn't have a title at all. Please contribute to its necessary financial support. If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, ![]() THE ADDAMS FAMILY Original Medium: Magazine cartoons ![]()
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