Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.
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16 Facts About Addams Family
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Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6,1932.
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The first Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format.
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Charles Addams Family became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons between then and his death in 1988.
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In 1946, Addams met science fiction writer Ray Bradbury after drawing an illustration for Bradbury's short story "Homecoming" in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts.
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Bradbury and Addams became friends and planned to collaborate on a book of the Elliott Family's complete history, with Bradbury writing and Addams providing the illustrations, but it never materialized.
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Bradbury's Elliott Family stories were anthologized in From the Dust Returned, with a connecting narrative, an explanation of his work with Addams, and Addams's 1946 Mademoiselle illustration used for the book's cover jacket.
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Outside of The New Yorker, Addams published several collections, the most notable being Dear Dead Days: A Family Album in 1959.
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Producer Nat Perrin took a "less evil" approach to the characters and stories than Addams Family had in the cartoons, emphasizing lighter, more comedic elements.
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Charles Addams Family was first inspired by his hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.
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The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons.
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Addams Family was still alive but was very ill at the time; Jane Rose replaced her.
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Addams Family has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is still in love with Gomez.
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The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives will be the basis for a new television series.
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Addams Family: An Evilution is a book about the "evilution" of The Addams Family characters, with more than 200 published and previously unpublished cartoons, and includes text by Charles Addams and H Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation.
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Addams Family has had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television, and it has been seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.
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