The Addams Family, when they first appeared on page nine of The New Yorker in 1938, were not named. The initial cartoon saw a gaunt Morticia-like woman and her towering beastly husband standing at the foot of a stairway in a dilapidated haunted house. A bat flies above, and there are spider webs in every corner. Lurking above them was some sort of ghoul. Their child? Addressing the monstrous couple was a determined vacuum cleaner salesman, clad in white, who states plainly that his product is "Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time and back saver. No well-appointed home should be without it." The home was perhaps the least "well-appointed" imaginable.
The "family" soon began appearing in more and more strips in the New Yorker, until the members became more solidly codified. The gaunt matron remained the same, but her beastly husband became squat and lascivious. Their butler was more or less a Frankenstein monster,...
The "family" soon began appearing in more and more strips in the New Yorker, until the members became more solidly codified. The gaunt matron remained the same, but her beastly husband became squat and lascivious. Their butler was more or less a Frankenstein monster,...
- 10/9/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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