I felt I needed to go and look at Addams' pictures. 11.97 Free shipping Charles Addams Chas Addams Happily Ever After (Paperback) 20.18 Free shipping Have one to sell Shop with confidence eBay Money Back Guarantee bargainbookstores ( Chas Addams Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Y Be the first to write a review. I seem to recall when I listened to this book many years ago, he mentioned Chas Addams. I'm reading a Ray Bradbury novel for Halloween - From the Dust Returned. And the fur coats and hats the ladies wore to go out! The old cars, the old stoves, the social tea parties, the apartments that look like The Honeymooners. I've heard this is what they did in old houses prior to outlets being required on every wall. What I find fascinating, though, is the fact that the toaster, the coffee maker, and the waffle iron are all plugged into the light fixture overhead. For example, in one cartoon, a wife is rigging up wires to electrocute her husband at breakfast. I looked at the illustrations of rooms and houses and cars and clothes, once so commonplace but now distracting enough that they took preeminence over the jokes. I loved the fact they were written so long ago. (Now I'm thinking about Morticia, but this book of cartoons only has one 'Addams Family' cartoon in it.) That made me wonder - was Chas Addams unhappily married? Looking at the bio in the book, his first two marriages seem as though they were beds of thorns, not beds of roses. Mainly I was entranced by the fact that the majority of the cartoons cover ways for wives to kill their husbands and husbands to kill their wives. There were a couple that were laugh out loud funny to me. They span several decades - the 1930s through the 1980s. He was married three times, last to Marilyn Matthews Miller, who went by the nickname 'Tee.' In keeping with his sense of humor, they were reportedly married in a pet cemetery and named their estate in the wealthy Long Island town of Sagaponack 'The Swamp.This compilation of Charles Addams' cartoons contains many that were previously published in the New Yorker and some that were never published at all.

During World War II, Addams served in the Army domestically, making cartoon training films for the soldiers. As it happens, Addams was born on January 7, 1912, and on what would have been his 100th birthday, Google is celebrating his memory with a Doodle done in his distinctive style (and courtesy of the Tee & Charles Addams Foundation).Īddams's cartooning career took off when, in 1932, he sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker – and from 1938 until his death fifty years later, the magazine printed his cartoons regularly. Over a nearly 60-year career, Addams drew more than 1,300 cartoons, most (if not all) with great creativity and a sense of humor twisted some degrees from what anyone would call normal. Before Gomez and Morticia snapped their fingers, before Thing fetched the mail, before anyone was 'altogether ooky,' Charles 'Chas' Addams created the Addams Family and other strange characters in his many cartoons.

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