Addams drew more than 1,300 cartoons over the course of his life. Beyond the new yorker pages, his cartoons appeared in collier's and tv guide, [5] as well as books, calendars, and other merchandise. In the 1964 television series the addams family, actress carolyn jones took on the role of morticia addams, the matriarch of the kooky addams family.

The addams family is a fictional family created by american cartoonist charles addams. The addams are an eccentric old-money clan who delight in the macabre and the grotesque and are seemingly … Charles “chas” addams, born on january 7, 1912, in westfield, new jersey, was an american cartoonist renowned for his darkly humorous and subversive characters. His early fascination with the macabre …