Since that time, there have been many “Addams Family” projects, including two animated series - Jodie Foster supplied the voice of Pugsley in the 1973-75 animated show - the 1977 NBC special “Halloween with the New Addams Family,” starring the majority of the original cast Barry Sonnenfeld’s blockbuster feature comedies, 1991’s “The Addams Family” and 1993’s “Addams Family Values,” starring Anjelica Huston as Morticia and Raul Julia as Gomez and the 2010 Broadway musical with Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia and Nathan Lane as Gomez.Īnd now Morticia, Gomez and the family are getting the animated feature treatment in a new comedy opening Friday. He refused to run any Addams Family cartoons during the run of the show. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket.It appears that William Shawn, the editor of the New Yorker, didn’t have quite the same love or respect for the series.
Ten chapters explore each Addams Family character, as well as their mansion (a “House To Die For”). A phenomenon of rare proportion, The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist’s dark but irresistible wit, expressed with an uncommonly deft hand.Ģ24 pages with more than 200 cartoons (approximately 50 are published here for the first time), many in color. As the presence of the Family continues to permeate generation after generation, and in celebration of the Broadway musical debuting in 2010, this book reminds us where these oddly lovable characters came from and, in doing so, offers a lasting tribute to one of America’s greatest humorists. Kevin Miserocchi, director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, offers a revealing chronology of each character’s evolution (for instance, did you know that Addams originally named Pugsley ‘Pubert’?), while Addams’s own incisive character descriptions, originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers, introduce each chapter. The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (American, 1912-1988) throughout his prolific career many have never been published before.
(When he did name the deadly matriarch, he was inspired by the Yellow Pages listing for ‘Morticians.’) Other characters were born and developed in a multitude of Addams’s cartoons over the next twenty-six years, before the cheerfully creepy clan debuted on ABC television in 1964 and later on the big screen, twice, in 19.
Addams first created Morticia, Lurch, and The Thing in a cartoon published in a 1938 issue of the New Yorker-though he hadn’t named them at the time, or even conceived of a family unit. The ‘evilution’ of Charles Addams’s singularly eccentric family began long before the television and film interpretations made them icons of American popular culture.
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