For Charles Addams’ legacy, it’s the gift that keeps on giving: the theater presentation of the hit broadway show, The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy, which of course grew out of the mid-1960s television show, The Addams Family. Here’s a nice piece (forget the “newspaper cartoon” and think “New Yorker Magazine“) from The Independent, “How the Addams Family Went
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Lou Myers’ Times Square; The Addams Family House…in Plastic
From Attempted Bloggery, June 11, 2017, “Lou Myers in Times Square” — this piece on a Lou Myers tour de force promotional mailer from 1973. Mr. Myers, who died in November of 2005, contributed stories, cartoons and one cover to the New Yorker from 1974 through 1989. In Mr. Myers’ NYTs obit, Steven Heller wrote: “Mr. Myers developed a deceptively
Read moreBook of Interest: Monster Mash
Who doesn’t like monsters? I’d bet almost every cartoonist has had a monster phase, or even more than a phase. Charles Addams, for one. Monster Mash looks like a great deal of fun — the inclusion of Mr. Addams’ “Addams Family” in this heavily illustrated volume makes it an Ink Spill Book of Interest. [Monster Mash: The Creepy ,
Read moreAddams Family’s Pugsley Dies at 59
Ken Weatherwax, the actor who played Pugsley in the televised version of The Addams Family has died at age 59. Link here to the BBC’s obit. For a refresher course in the Pugsley cartoon character, I turned to the Linda Davis biography of Addams, A Cartoonists Life, which documents the development of the Addams Family characters as well as the
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