Charles Addams A Cartoonist’s Life

They’re creepy and they’re kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They’re all together ooky
The Addams Family
Their house is a museum
When people come to see 'em
They really are a screaming
The Addams Family.
Neat.
Sweet
Petite
So put a witch's shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna play a call on
The Addams Family
They’re creepy and they’re kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They’re all together ooky
The Addams Family
Strange
Deranged
The Addams Family

If you were alive and watched TV in the 1960s you’ll recognize these lyrics.

The Addams Family TV series ran for several years on ABC TV and was extremely popular.  Decades later they would star in a number of films, both live and animated.

The series was based on the single panel cartoons illustrated and written by Charles Addams.

For those of you unfamiliar with The Addams Family, they were a spooky, weird and macabre clan that occupied a creepy old house and lived an ‘unconventional’ lifestyle, to say the least.

The new oversize softbound book: Charles Addams A Cartoonist’s Life, by famed author Linda H. Davis and published by Turner Publishing Company, looks into the life of The Addams Family creator, Charles H. Addams.

It turns out he was as colorful and strange as the characters he illustrated.

Rumors were rampant about Addams when he was alive.  Often outgoing and congenial Addams kept his private life under wraps.

Because of the strange nature of his The Addams Family cartoons people often assumed he was a strange as his characters.

In some respects he was, although not quite as out there.

It was rumored he slept in a coffin, subsisted on a strange diet and had hidden dark secrets best left kept secret.

What is known is that he loved women, had no qualms about ruffling the establishment’s feathers and lived his life on his own terms.

Get ready for a remarkable journey as you examine the strange, fascinating and unusual life of one of the world’s most unique and captivating artists.

Filled with photos and art the book is a kooky, crazy and captivating excursion into the mind and life of a genius.

Proverbs 18:21 (KJV) “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”