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The first Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons between then and his death in 1988. 58 of these would feature the Addams Family, almost all of which were published in the 1940s and 1950s.
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In 1932, while still a student, he sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, a sketch of a window washer that paid him $7.50.
Nov 22, 2020 · He started to contribute one panel cartoons to the New Yorker in 1932 and in 1938 he drew his first of a series of macabre caricatures that became the Addams Family. This concept was what eventually got picked up by David Levy for the 1960s Addams Family television show.
Aug 13, 2017 · Addams had just turned 20 when he sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, a powerhouse of new American writing that also championed the country's best illustrators.
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Jan 6, 2017 · The first Addams Family cartoon from The New Yorker (1938). The Addams Family were created by Charles ‘Chas’ Addams, a freelance cartoonish born in 1912 to piano executive Charles Huey Addams and his wife Grace M. Spear Addams.
The prolific cartoonist Charles Addams began the Addams Family as a satire of the traditional nuclear family with a series of cartoon strips in 1938 and the 1959 collection, “Dear Dead...
Nov 13, 2022 · The bizarre family made its debut in its pages in 1938. As depicted in the cartoons, the family differs a fair amount from the various incarnations that it inspired in the following decades....
