Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life by Linda H. Davis - PopMatters Book Review

Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life by Linda H. Davis - PopMatters Book Review: "Charles Addams’ cartoons are simultaneously macabre and funny, even in description. With his creation of the mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky family that came to bear his name, he found fame as one of the New Yorker’s most distinctive artists (and later as the imagination behind the 1960s sitcom that named the family as Morticia, Gomez, et al.).

It’s only natural we would be curious about someone who could make us laugh at what should be disturbing. His colleagues were regularly asked what he was really like, and there were stories that he was deranged. And Addams did do his best to appear as spooky and ooky as he could, collecting crossbows and mortuary equipment, painting his bathroom walls black, posing for a picture in a suit and a medieval knight’s helmet.

Now, for those who wish to know what he was really, really like, there is Linda H. Davis’ biography Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life."

This is on my to-read pile.