Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest: Charles Addams

Video Of Interest: Charles Addams

An exchange of emails with Linda Davis, Charles Addams’s biographer, regarding the Westfield NJ “AddamsFest” led to Ms. Davis pointing me to a clip on Youtube from a 1981 PBS interview with Charles Addams. The “AddamsFest” folks will be showing the entire interview, but for now, we can enjoy close to three minutes with one of The New Yorker‘s cartoon gods. See it here.  

  — This being October, with Halloween approaching, what better time to immerse oneself in Ms. Davis’s Addams biography — 

Here’s Addams’s Spill A-Z entry: 

Charles Addams (Born in Westfield, New Jersey, January 7, 1912. Died September 29, 1988, New York City. New Yorker work: 1932 – 1988 * the New Yorker has published his work posthumously. One of the giants of The New Yorker’s stable of artists. Key cartoon collections: While all of Addams’ collections are worthwhile, here are three that are particular favorites; Homebodies (Simon & Schuster, 1954), The Groaning Board (Simon & Schuster, 1964), Creature Comforts (Simon & Schuster, 1981). In 1991 Knopf published The World of Chas Addams, a retrospective collection. A biography, Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, by Linda Davis, was published in 2006 by Random House. Visit the Addams Foundation website for far more information: charlesaddams.com

More video: A twelve minute 2007 video of Addams’s life & career, featuring Kevin Miserocchi, of The Tee and Charles Addams Foundation: “You Rang, Mr. Addams?” 

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