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Charles Addams

Charles Addams

Chas Addams was the creator of the "Addams Family" cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker and were the inspiration for the popular The Addams Family television show and movies. He has been honored with the Yale Humor Award (1954) and a Special Edgar Award for "Cartoonist of the Macabre" from the Mystery Writers of America. Addams died in 1988 in New York City.

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Chas Addams Happily Ever After will be released on August 11, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Aug 11, 2012
Chas Addams Happily Ever After is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 11, 2012
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook will be released on May 09, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 09, 2012
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook is now available in Trade Paperback
May 09, 2012
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook will be released on June 16, 2008 in eBook
Jun 16, 2008
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook will be released on June 16, 2008 in eBook
Jun 16, 2008
Chas Addams Happily Ever After is now available in eBook
Jun 16, 2008
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook will be released on June 16, 2008 in eBook
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Chas Addams Happily Ever After will be released on January 03, 2006 in Hardcover
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Chas Addams Happily Ever After is now available in Hardcover
Jan 03, 2006
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook will be released on September 27, 2005 in Hardcover
Sep 27, 2005
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook is now available in Hardcover
Sep 27, 2005

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Philadelphia Inquirer, March 22, 2013
...Music. Based, of course, on the macabre and madcap cartoon brood created in the 1930s by Penn student Charles Addams, the show has plenty going for it, starting with a regularly hilarious script by "Jersey Boys" authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice...
Washington City Paper, March 1, 2013
...on developing my cartooning more seriously. WCP : Who are your influences? TRL: Edward Gorey , Lynda Barry , Roz Chast, Charles Addams, Egon Schiele, Sergio Aragones, and all those MAD magazine guys. (I met Sergio a couple of years ago, and I have...
PhillyBurbs.com, March 1, 2013
...runs through March 24 at the Academy of Music at 240 S. Broad St. in Philadelphia. Prolific cartoonist Charles Addams’ take on that beloved TV series has us with a grown-up Wednesday Addams in a serious romance with a respectable young man who knows...
Buffalo News, February 24, 2013
...the Wilcox Mansion in historical importance. That?s not how it looked. It seemed back then a house only Charles Addams could love. We think about these things so very differently now. Back then, there were those who might well have privately called it...
Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2013
...to $30,000. Other works in the auction include a number of books by Edward Gorey, illustrations by Charles Addams and Peter Arno, and an original ink drawing by Garth Williams for a 1953 dust jacket of "Little House on the Prairie." There are a number...
New Yorker, January 8, 2013
...Princeton Triangle Club publicity photo. An infographic of twenty-one emotions that don’t exist in the English language. Charles Addams illustrates Mother Goose . ... read more...
Daily World, December 20, 2012
...a warm blanket, hot cocoa and two or three lap dogs to properly enjoy. Contributors include everyone from Charles Addams to E.B. White, with the likes of James Thurber, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl, Susan Orlean, Anne Sexton, John Updike and many...
Artdaily.org, January 18, 2013
...film King Kong, a one-sheet teaser for The Invisible Man, the original artwork for Jailhouse Rock, and a Charles Addams drawing of the Addams Family, amongst other collectibles. The courtroom auction wrapped a significant chapter in the bankruptcy of...
Reporter, January 17, 2013
...at the Fox Cities PAC, 400 W. College Ave., Appleton. The musical is based on the cartoon of Charles Addams, which was later adapted into TV shows and movies. In the stage production, Wednesday Addams has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart...
Westfield Patch, January 14, 2013
...In 2006, Newsweek ranked WHS 691st amongst the top 1,200 high schools nationwide. Notable alumni include cartoonist Charles Addams, physician Virginia Apgar, NFL quarterback Dave Brown, NFL punter Steve Cheek, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige,...
Springfield News-Leader, January 13, 2013
...series concludes April 5-6 with The Addams Family, a stage musical based on the macabre clan created by Charles Addams. Bidding winter adieu on March 20 is Hot Club of San Francisco, a five-piece band whose Cinema Vivant program echoes the style of...
Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2013
...to $30,000. Other works in the auction include a number of books by Edward Gorey, illustrations by Charles Addams and Peter Arno, and an original ink drawing by Garth Williams for a 1953 dust jacket of "Little House on the Prairie." There are a number...
Atlantic Monthly, January 8, 2013
...Family creator and New Yorker cartoonist Charles "Chas" Addams put his twist on the classic Mother Goose tales. The Charles Addams Mother Goose  is exactly as darkly delightful as you'd expect it to be, bringing the time-honored characters to wicked...
Atlantic Monthly, January 8, 2013
...Family creator and New Yorker cartoonist Charles "Chas" Addams put his twist on the classic Mother Goose tales. The Charles Addams Mother Goose  is exactly as darkly delightful as you'd expect it to be, bringing the time-honored characters to wicked...