![]() ![]() in The New Yorker over a 50-year period from their inception in 1938. ![]() A phenomenon of rare proportion, The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist's dark but irresistible wit, expressed with an uncommonly deft hand. The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles. Kevin Miserocchi, director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, offers a revealing chronology of each character’s evolution, while Addams’ own incisive character descriptions, originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers, introduce each chapter.Īs the presence of the Family continues to permeate generation after generation, and in celebration of the Broadway musical opening in 2010, this book reminds us where these oddly lovable characters came from and, in doing so, offers a lasting tribute to one of America’s greatest humorists. The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams throughout his prolific career many have never been published before. Other characters were born and developed in a multitude of Addams’ cartoons over the next twenty-six years, before the cheerily creepy clan debuted on ABC television in 1964 and later on the big screen, twice, in 19. ![]() Addams first created Morticia, Lurch and The Thing in a cartoon published in a 1938 issue of The New Yorker magazine - though he hadn’t named them at the the time, or even conceived of a family unit. The “evilution” of Charles Addams’ singularly eccentric family began long before the television and film interpretations made them icons of American popular culture. ![]()
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