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Birth
1912 (Westfield, New Jersey)
Death
1988
Lived/Active
New York
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Charles Addams was best known for his macabre cartoons that appeared in "The New Yorker", for whom he also did the occasional cover. His Addams Family cartoons were the basis for a hit TV series and two successful feature films.
Addams was a mild mannered man with a wicked but gentle mind. The following is from the 1954 dust jacket notes on "Homebodies":
"Charles Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, forty-one years ago and attended Colgate University, The University of Pennsyl (showing 500 of 3913 characters). |
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