Chas Addams Happily Ever After by Charles Addams

In the cartoons, his ghoulish creations lived on Cemetery Ridge with a dreadful view.Ī house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue – into which police once caught him breaking and entering – are said to be the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons. Īddams would enjoy the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue in Westfield as a child, where – according to author and Addams expert Ron MacCloskey – he would wonder what it was like to be dead. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, despite the different spellings of their last names, and was a first cousin twice removed to noted social reformer Jane Addams. (née Spear 1879–1943) and Charles Huey Addams (1873–1932), a piano company executive who had studied to be an architect, he was known as 'something of a rascal around the neighborhood' as childhood friends recalled. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were subsequently popularized through various adaptations.Īddams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781476711201 Number of pages: 176 Weight: 245 g Dimensions: 232 x 187 x 13 mm You may also be interested in.Charles Samuel Addams (Janu– September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters, signing the cartoons as Chas Addams. The cartoons in Chas Addams Happily Ever After run the gamut from ecstatic love to disappointed affection to murderous obsession and demonstrate that love really does hurt. Learn what to do when your prince stays a frog, even after you've kissed him.Ĭompiled from Addams's personal archive, many of these cartoons are previously unpublished gems, while others are Addams classics. Or how to keep your husband on a leash-literally.

Forget roses and chocolate, Addams will show you how to woo a mermaid or celebrate an anniversary on a desert island.

The passion of Morticia and Gomez Addams, the lonely desires of Fester, the numerous grim and ghastly fights between husband and wife-all found their way into Addams's signature drawings.Īddams's concept of love was quite a bit different from the traditional idea of romance.

Charles Addams was renowned for his depictions of love (or lack thereof) in his cartoons.

Chas Addams Happily Ever After by Charles Addams