The persistence of The Addams Family is largely due to the vast generations of collectors who saw the family as a refreshing jab at the traditional American family.
Right: Scuba Galleon, water color and gouache, cover for The New Yorker, September 21, 1957. If you should need anything, just scream," published in The New Yorker, March 13, 1943. Although his life’s work is estimated to consist of several thousand original pieces, his most well-known characters, those of The Addams Family, only appear in approximately fifty illustrations.
Addams contributed to The New Yorker for more than fifty years, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library and The Library of Congress. With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams (1912-1988) walked through life illuminating its incongruous funny bones and sore spots. Charles Addams A Cartoonist of Incongruous Charm
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