Tag: Addams Family

BOOK REVIEW Charles Solomon recently reviewed “Addams Family: An Evilution” for the Los Angeles Times. Here’s an excerpt.   If Leo Tolstoy had seen the cartoons of Chas. Addams, he would have had to rethink his famous dictum, “All happy families are alike.” Gomez and Morticia’s misbegotten brood may have been creepy and kooky, but they were also happy, as the cartoons in the delightful anthology “The Addams Family: An Evilution“ attest. Addams, born in 1912, sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker in 1932, while he was still a student at the Grand Central School of Art in Manhattan. Six years later, he began the Addams Family saga with a drawing of a cheerfully oblivious door-to-door salesman demonstrating a vacuum cleaner to early versions of Morticia and Lurch: “Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time and back saver. No well-appointed ...

The Addams Family has been a spooky sensation for decades now. The darkly eccentric family has come to life in big- and small-screen versions, live-action and animation, and now a GK: The Addams Family has been around for generations now. Why do this book now? KM: It’s what we wanted to do. People are reading a little less and less on paper. We’re kind of trying to attack it the way we can. We wanted to educate the public [on his drawings]. This isn’t the script for the musical or the movie or anything. The drawings came from a person and not just for TV. There are people who didn’t know when the TV shows came out. It looked like another TV show, another ‘ha-ha’ sitcom. That’s just the nature. GK: Speaking of the movie, there is a lot talk about ...