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Article: Appreciation; A Walk on the Dark Side; The Haunting Humor of Cartoonist Charles Addams
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 1, 1988
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"This is where I say good night," said the anorexic witch,
standing at the street manhole.
That cartoon seems a fitting adieu to Chas Addams (as he signed
his name), the man who painted humor black and made us laugh at
death.
Addams died suddenly Thursday of a heart attack suffered in his
car outside his Manhattan apartment. But he left behind the ghostly
figures and figments of his imagination with whom he had haunted a
strange world, the flip side of everyday.
The Addams family, his longest running characters, first saw the
dark of night at The New Yorker, where he sold his first cartoon when
he was 21. "The Addams Family"-the television show in the 1960s-added
fame to his ...