Critical Essay by Boris Karloff
Why a collection of the drawings of Charles Addams [such as Drawn and Quartered] should need any written introduction at all is as far beyond me as the writing of one!...
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Critical Essay by Lisle Bell
At this date, there is little need to dwell upon Mr. Addams's eerie magic and sinister charm as artist and master of the macabre. [In Monster Rally] he has preserv...
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Critical Essay by Dwight Macdonald
There must be a special reason why Americans find Addams's stuff refreshing. Perhaps it is because the cartoons, which deal largely with family life, provide...
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Critical Essay by Best Sellers
The genially fiendish imagination of "Chas" Addams is bountifully explored [in The Groaning Board] in more than a hundred cartoons and drawings, including...
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Critical Essay by Russell Lynes
The clanking of Addams' chains has become as seasonal as sleigh bells. If you have seen the TV show that is based on the characters he invented and have not bee...
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Critical Essay by John Gruen
[The following essay first appeared in 1967.]
[Charles Addams is] still tops when it comes to projecting the nervous side of life. Thirty years on The New Yorker has n...
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Critical Essay by George A. Woods
The rhymes are true Mother Goose, but the illustrations are pure Charles Addams which means you'd better start the very young on a more traditionally illustra...
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Critical Essay by Della Thomas
It isn't even necessary to open [The Chas Addams Mother Goose] to recognize the unique Addams brand of humor—the Mother Goose on the cover, aloft over a N...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
Some element of the usual Addams style seems lacking [in The Chas. Addams Mother Goose], perhaps a spontaneity due to working with a prescribed text, so that the mac...
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Critical Essay by Regina Minudri
Some [of the cartoons in My Crowd] are old favorites and some are new, but all are delightful cartoons in the inimitable, macabre, Addams' style. An archaeolog...
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Critical Essay by John B. Breslin
[We] must not let go unnoticed a new collection of Charles Addams cartoons, Favorite Haunts …, especially when it represents one of the bargains of the season...
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Critical Essay by Time
Readers of The New Yorker … know Artist Charles Addams as a tireless illustrator of the now commonplace question: Is the world going insane?… He cares not who mak...
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Critical Essay by Iris Barry
Naturally, an album of drawings ["Drawn and Quartered"] that comes prefaced by words from Boris Karloff [see excerpt above] would, in the normal course of e...
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Critical Essay by Wolcott Gibbs
New Yorker cartoons can be roughly divided into two classifications, which, back in the days when I was the most insanely miscast of an almost endless procession of ar...
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Critical Essay by William Germain Dooley
["Addams and Evil"] is the latest collection of irrationally sinister cartoons by Charles Addams from The New Yorker, a macabre mixture from the...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. Charles Addams, in a very high and broad album of drawings [Addams and Evil], supplies … [an] element native to The New Yorker, an element c...
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Critical Essay by Lisle Bell
If there is social significance in "Addams and Evil," the only thing to do is shudder and laugh it off. This can be done simultaneously. In a superb gallery...
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Critical Essay by Charles Poore
The quality of Chas Addams is not strained—it is a pictorial explosion of the demonic instincts in civilized man. As you look at his gruesome masterpieces week ...
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Critical Essay by John Mason Brown
[The following essay first appeared in The Saturday Review, November 11, 1950.]
[Mr. Addams's] hilarious derangements can now be relished in a collection ...
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Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85.Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood home, Los Angeles...
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Take it from one who knows: Cartoonists lead unexciting lives. Dreaming up gags is a solitary business, with none of the camaraderie enjoyed in collaborative work. No curtain calls. No ovations. An...
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Take it from one who knows: Cartoonists lead unexciting lives. Dreaming up gags is a solitary business, with none of the camaraderie enjoyed in collaborative work. No curtain calls. No ovations. An...
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The other night, Tony Curtis was in a mid-century movie with some pole lamp behind his head. Then what? It became obvious that the mid-century—and the Bauhaus before that—has brought us...
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Critical Essay by Boris Karloff
Maila Nurmi, TV's Vampira, dies at 85
