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Addams Family / An Evilution Book

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EAN: 9780764953880
Product Code: 1029
Weight: 1.4kg
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Addams Family / An Evilution Book

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The 'evilution' of Charles Addams's singularly eccentric family began long before the television and film interpretations made them icons of American popular culture. Addams first created Morticia Lurch and The Thing in a cartoon published in a 1938 issue of the New Yorker--though he hadn't named them at the time or even conceived of a family unit. (When he did name the deadly matriarch he was inspired by the Yellow Pages listing for 'Morticians.') Other characters were born and developed in a multitude of Addams's cartoons over the next twenty-six years before the cheerfully creepy clan debuted on ABC television in 1964 and later on the big screen twice inWWWW 1991 andWWWW 1993. InWWWW 2010 The Addams Family made their Broadway debut in a spectacular new musical. 224 pages with more thanWWWW 200 cartoons (approximately 50 are published here for the first time) many in color. Ten chapters explore each Addams Family character as well as their mansion (a 'House To Die For'). Hardback The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history presenting more thanWWWW 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (American 1912-1988) throughout his prolific career many have never been published before. Text by H. Kevin Miserocchi director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation offers a revealing chronology of each character's evolution (for instance did you know that Addams originally named Pugsley 'Pubert'?) while Addams's own incisive character descriptions originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers introduce each chapter. As the presence of the Family continues to permeate generation after generation and in celebration of the Broadway musical debuting inWWWW 2010 this book reminds us where these oddly lovable characters came from and in doing so offers a lasting tribute to one of America's greatest humorists. A phenomenon of rare proportion The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist's dark but irresistible wit expressed with an uncommonly deft hand.

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