Charles Addams Critical Essay | Critical Essay by John B. Breslin

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. It's been a dozen years since the last and those readers who open their New Yorker every week wondering whether the master has struck again can sate their appetites on this book. What a bizarre mind he has! And yet, after turning these pages you have to admit that the world he creates is only a slightly distorted mirror vision of the world we read about in our daily papers. Luckily for me, his art defies verbal description, so I can leave you to your own memories of favorite cartoons. (p. 426)

John B. Breslin, "The Triumph of the Photographer," in America, Vol. 135, No. 19, December 11, 1976, pp. 425-26.∗