Description: CHARLES ADDAMS (1912-1988)AUTOGRAPHED SIGNEDADDAMS FAMILY PRINTED CHRISTMAS CARTOON This printed cartoon image wassigned in 1987 by Charles Addams The Addams Family is a (barely) fictional family created by cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 standalone single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker between 1938 and their creator's death in 1988. They have since been adapted to other media, such as television, film, video games, comic books, a musical, and merchandise. The Addams are an eccentric old-money clan who delight in the macabre and the grotesque and they are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. The family members were unnamed until the 1960s. Matriarch Morticia and daughter Wednesday received their names when a licensed doll collection was released in 1962; patriarch Gomez and son Pugsley were named when the 1964 television series debuted. The Addams Family consists of Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, and close family members Uncle Fester and Grandmama, their butler Lurch, and Pugsley's pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (later a disembodied hand) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez's Cousin Itt, Morticia's pet lion Kitty Kat and Morticia's carnivorous plant Cleopatra in 1964. (Pubert Addams, Wednesday and Pugsley's infant brother, was introduced in the 1993 film Addams Family Values). The live-action television series premiered on ABC on Friday, September 18, 1964, and ran for two seasons. In 1964, the ABC TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams's cartoon characters. The series — helmed by former Marx Brothers writer Nat Perrin — was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September 18, 1964 – September 2, 1966). Starting with the original television run of The Addams Family television series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn idiosyncratically refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons. However, he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership and he did not want it to be associated with characters who could be seen on television by the more general public. After Shawn's 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker. INSURED BOXED MEDIAMAIL SHIPPING WITHINTWO BUSINESS DAYS
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