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As every child knows-and as readers of The New Yorker are regularly reminded-there lives, in that gloomy, crumbling mansion on the other side of any town, a happy family of unmitigated fiends. They are poor as cemetery mice, but honest as the night is long, and like true...
It is by no means certain, to the thousands of Charles Addams admirers, just who (or what) Addams is. Some hold that he is just a man who has a macabre sense of humor, expressed in horribly funny drawings for The New Yorker. Others wonder uneasily how Addams came to...
The Lighter Side. Two new books answer most of the questions about Addams and his work: Monster Rally, a collection of 91 of the best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition...
In the Rally, Addams shows his full cast of professionally baleful bad characters: the gaunt, string-haired young witch who looks somewhat like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their...
Nothing Violent. Some of the Addams humor is relatively mild, e.g., the picnic that is invaded by man-sized ants, the cannibal who murmurs his excuse for not eating: "Oh, I like missionary, all right, but missionary doesn't like me." In some of the others, a deeper flavor...