Addams was born there in 1912 and as a child he played in graveyards, imagining those who lay beneath, and resurrecting them in his sketchbook. The origins of this pop culture dynasty can be traced to the small town of Westfield, N.J., about 20 miles west of Manhattan. Next month, the ever-morose tween Wednesday Addams will have her own Netflix show, directed by Tim Burton. Although he drew thousands of cartoons throughout his career, Addams is best known for ghoulish and charming characters who first graced the pages of The New Yorker in the late 1930s.Īfter they appeared on a TV sitcom that ran from 1964 to 1966, The Addams Family, as they came to be known, enjoyed an afterlife in syndication, as well as books, animated series, live-action films, a Broadway musical, a pinball machine, video games and ads hawking everything from M&Ms to home insurance. On November 3, the Society of Illustrators will induct the cartoonist Charles "Chas" Addams into its Hall of Fame.
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