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The Penguin Charles Addams
Charles Addams is most famous for what spun off from his comics, the popular 1964-1966 TV show The Addams Family, and the two 1990s movies of the same name. And this collection contains many of the 'Family' cartoons, originally printed in the New Yorker magazine. Most of the cartoons hinge on a quirkiness bordering on the surreal — often with some sort of deformity as the pivot point — but not all of them are macabre. An artist sculpting an angel out of stone calls out the window “Same time next Monday, then, Mrs Grant?” Some are subtle, such as a row of sheets hanging outside a house with eye-holes cut out of them, and some are plain racist (less said about those, the better). Some are of, shall we say, limited humour, such as a nurse poking her head out of a delivery room door to announce “It's a baby!”
The strength is definitely the Addams Family cartoons — a whole cinema full of people crying and Uncle Fester laughing, Pugsley and Wednesday returning from summer camp in pet travellers, and Morticia Addams' parting advice to the babysitter “…keep your back to the walls at all times.”
The strength is definitely the Addams Family cartoons — a whole cinema full of people crying and Uncle Fester laughing, Pugsley and Wednesday returning from summer camp in pet travellers, and Morticia Addams' parting advice to the babysitter “…keep your back to the walls at all times.”
- GenresComics
124 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1962
About the author
Charles Addams
47 books209 followersThe macabre humor and Gothic settings characterized many cartoons, first apparent in the New Yorker, of known American cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams.
Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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July 7, 2021
Mm, delicious poison
January 30, 2022
It may take a jaded person to delight in Addams casual juxtaposition of the commonplace and the macabre. If so, I gleefully plead guilty.
May 31, 2020
I use to love this collection when I was a kid, but a lot of these cartoons have not aged well.
July 9, 2021
A fun short illustrated read. Those who know the awesome cartoon series ‘The Addams Family’ will definitely know all the reference made in the illustrations.
January 30, 2023
I greatly appreciate Charles Addams' style of drawing and dark sense of humour. This book is an enjoyable and quick read.
November 17, 2023
Wonderful!
My humour basically drawn on the page in cartoon form.
Also gives me a better appreciation of how close the aesthetic of the 90’s films are to these drawings.
My humour basically drawn on the page in cartoon form.
Also gives me a better appreciation of how close the aesthetic of the 90’s films are to these drawings.
August 12, 2011
love it
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews