The World of Chas Addams

    (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)

A retrospective celebration of the ominous, lovable, dark, and infinately hilarious art of one of America’s greatest cartoonists. A lavish projection of the world he created: a world of agreeably muderous spouses, devilishly precocious children, bright-eyed witches, spooky laboratories, crypts, and tunnels… and of the super-Victorian house we now call by his name, and hits inhabitants, that surreal all-American clan beloved by all America - the Addams Family.

From 1932 until his death in 1988, Charles Addams contributed more than 1,300 cartoons to The New Yorker and other periodicals. This volume brings together 300 of the most wonderful of them all, as well as 24 of his 65 New Yorker cover paintings in brillian full color. The result is a feast of laughter and a rich showing of the inspired originality, invention, and clarity of the artist whom New York Times critic John Russell has called “an American landmark.“

The mast at his heartwarming, hair-raising best. (from the publisher)
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