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I am a fan of the cartoons of Charles Adams. I also enjoyed the television series and have appreciated the movies on the Adam's family.This book brings all together very well.The book talks about how each character developed over the years and when they first appeared in print. It also talks about how each character went from print to becoming the character that appeared on the television show and later the movies. For instance it's talks about how Pugsley and Wednesday got their namesThe Adams family are only a small segment of the work of Charles Adams.. Yet they do show his dark but hilarious sense of humor. I have a few books on his cartoons . It's nice to have one devoted to the Adam's family.The cartoons are the right size for me. They're easy to read. They are on very nice paper. The pages are thick and feel comfortable in my hand when i'm turning the pages.The book came sealed in plastic wrap which made it even nicer. There's nothing nicer than turning a crisp untouched page in a book.The book does talk about Charles Adams as well. Learning about the creator of the Adam's family helped me enjoy the book even more.

Happy to finally have a collection of the original Addams family. Nice book, I wish there were more cartoons in it!

The book have a hard cover and very good illustrations inside, as well as very curious old photos!

Excellent volume. An interesting history of the development of one of the most famous fictional families lavishly illustrated with glorious reproductions of Charles Addams's original black and white illustrations. There is a melancholy beauty in Addams's work that is haunting as well as grimly comic.There are surprises for anyone who thinks they know the family from the TV shows and/ or films. We find that Uncle Fester and Pugsley are much darker and gleefully malevolent characters than we thought; Morticia displays a tough love attitude, Gomez tests a psychiatrist's resolve and we get to see the original Thing.Each chapter focusses on a particular member of the family, and their development.Some fascinating insights include a draught for one cartoon featuring Lurch that shows Addams could feel that sometimes he had gone too far, and that Morticia's figure depended on the state of Addams's various marriages at the time of drawing.Even the house itself is shown to be a character in its own right.This is an essential time for Addams Family fans, lovers of macabre humour, and aficionados of comic artistry at its best.What we need now is a similar book that explores the non "Family" work of the great man: a housewife's quick thinking when giant asparagus erupts in her garden; the nanny taking a baby for a walk in a pram with bars on it; an afternoon party attendee by 500 years' worth of artists' muses; and shrigles. Never mind what shrigles are, just put them in a book like this one!

Wer Chas Addams mag, wird viel Freude an diesem Buchhaben.Auch die englischen Texte erklären sich durch die treffenden,phantastischen Zeichnungen fast von selbst.Man sollte allerdings für den Textteil das Englische beherrschen.