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January 7, 1912 · Westfield, New Jersey, USA. Died. September 29, 1988 · New York City, New York, USA (heart attack) Birth name. Charles Samuel Addams. Nickname. Chas. Mini Bio. Charles Samuel Addams, or Chill as his friends called him, was born on January 7, 1912, in Westfield, New Jersey.
Sep 30, 1988 · Charles Addams, the cartoonist whose macabre humor brought a touch of ghoulishness to The New Yorker's glossy pages for five decades, died yesterday at St. Clare's Hospital and Health Center,...
Oct 11, 2019 · Charles Addams drew some 1,300 New Yorker cartoons, but only 58 of them, almost all in the 1940s-50s, featured the unnamed family who remained anonymous until around the time the television...
Charles Samuel Addams. 7 January 1912 - 29 September 1988. Biography. 1912. Born January 7 to Grace M. Spear and Charles Huey Addams in Westfield, NJ. 1929. Graduates from Westfield Senior High School. Attends Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. 1930. Attends University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1931.
Oct 27, 2022 · On November 3, the Society of Illustrators will induct the cartoonist Charles "Chas" Addams into its Hall of Fame. Although he drew thousands of cartoons throughout his career, Addams is best...
Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were subsequently popularized through various adaptations.
Charles Addams is most widely known for the creation of The Addams Family® of characters who formed the basis of the TV show that first appeared in 1964. Now famous, Morticia, Fester, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley, Grandma, Lurch and Thing existed in various forms and aspects within the Addams cartoons prior to the sitcom.
