One style is the old switch-a-roonie where what would make a normal family terrified makes that creepy Addams family delighted, and these cartoons seem pretty facile by today’s standards. There is a peculiar style to Charles Addams that you either like or you don’t. No rating, because I’m tired of passing judgment.
Very funny, very well drawn, a true classic comics pioneer. Still, if you can find them in your library or see them in a second hand bookshop I highly recommend his work. It's a shame that there isn't an up to date version of his work, a retrospective or compendium of his best stuff, because the used prices for his books are astronomical. I enjoyed the hell out of this book and can see how far ahead Charles Addams was in terms of his work and how he's gone on to influence so many artists in his wake. The drawings and humour feel very contemporary but are more than 50 years old. Passengers on a train looking out of the window to see a giant child with a giant train set controller. Uncle Fester taking the kids fishing Pugsley is carrying a box of dynamite. What does have two horns, one eye, and creeps?" while on the stairs is a grotesque monster.
There's a sketch that was used on the Simpsons 40 years after Addams drew it of Wednesday fixing a shark fin onto Pugsley before he jumps into the river where other kids are playing (Homer: "Aaah Sharkboy!").Ī father smiling indulgently to his son stood in the doorway looking anxious, saying "I give up, Robert.
Pugsley and Wednesday (while the Addams family are in the book, they are unnamed at this point in Addams' career) building a large fire in the fireplace while Gomez and Morticia look on smiling "The little dears! They still believe in Santa Claus".Ī 50s version of "To Catch a Predator" where a policeman holds up a book to the man in the doorway asking "Are you the Arthur Johnson who lost his diary?" while dozens of policemen wait in the shadows. We've run out of candy" while the wider picture shows the landscape swarming with aliens and the skies filled with alien spacecraft. Some of them feature his most famous creations The Addams Family but most do not, while all feature his brilliant sense of humour.Ī couple opening the door on Halloween to a short alien saying "I'm sorry, sonny. The book is a series of mostly 1 panel page length illustrations Charles Addams drew for the New Yorker in the 40s and 50s.
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