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This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.Charles Samuel Addams or "Chill" as his friends called him was born on January 7, 1912, in Westfield, New Jersey. Addams Favorite Haunts (1976), and Creature Comforts (1981). Collections of his cartoons include Drawn and Quartered (1942), Addams and Evil (1947), Monster Rally (1950), Homebodies (1954), Nightcrawlers (1957), Dear Dead Days (1959), Black Maria (1960), The Charles Addams Mother Goose (1967), My Crowd (1970), Chas. Addams’s ghoulish characters served as the basis of “ The Addams Family,” a popular television series in the mid-1960s. His best-known cartoons centred on a family of ghouls whose activities travestied those of a conventional family for example, they prepare to pour boiling oil from the rooftop on a group of Christmas carolers. Addams became famous for his ironic depictions of morbid or inexplicable behaviour by sinister-looking individuals. His cartoons began to attract considerable popular attention about 1940. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īddams attended various schools from 1929 to 1932 thereafter, aside from a brief period as a commercial artist, he was a free-lance cartoonist, selling his first work to The New Yorker in 1933.

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