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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpooky 'Addams Family' Logo Celebrates Macabre Cartoonist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/charles-addams-google-doodle-spooky-addams-family-logo-celebrates-macabre-cartoonist/2012/01/06/gIQAOrCFgP_blog.htmlTo celebrate the centennial of the late, great cartoonists birth, Google today features a deft ghoulish Doodle in honor of Charles Addams, the longtime New Yorker magazine contributor who was a master of the macabre and a brilliant wit of the weird.
Of course, to many fans, Addams is best known for his namesake cartoon family that has leapt from page to soundstage to Broadway stage. Long after its single-panel creation, The Addams Family enjoys an entertainment immortality befitting the otherwordly brood.
Addamss inspired tribe headed by the wealthy, mustachioed Gomez and alabaster, raven-locked wife Morticia already has an afterlife of several generations. Even the spooky, ooky lyrics and finger-snapping tune from the 60s TV show which featured the misadventures of a blissfully macabre family seem destined to hum in human brains for eons, an earworm for all eternity.
To pay tribute to Addams and his Family, Googles search homepage spotlights Gomez and Morticia in the front of the logos G; Cousin Itt holding the O; young Pugsley in the G of a guillotine next to sister Wednesday (whose favorite toy was Marie Antoinette); towering butler Lurch grasps the L; and Uncle Fester chomps down on the E.
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Spooky 'Addams Family' Logo Celebrates Macabre Cartoonist (Original Post)
LuvNewcastle
Jan 2012
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That's cool. Hey everyone be sure to not miss the FOUR videos on the OP link above.
Tx4obama
Jan 2012
#1
Long before the TV series and Broadway musical, I loved the ghoulish dark humor in
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2012
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. That's cool. Hey everyone be sure to not miss the FOUR videos on the OP link above.
Thank you for posting this 'current event'
no_hypocrisy
(46,202 posts)2. Long before the TV series and Broadway musical, I loved the ghoulish dark humor in
the cartoons of Charles Addams, usually found in The New Yorker magazine and in collections in books.
Auggie
(31,194 posts)3. Same here. He was marvelously creative.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)4. Lots of people don't realize that the "Addams Family" characters didn't have names
until the TV series ...
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)5. I found the Addams Family in a backwards kind of way --
I saw the reruns as a kid. I didn't find out about the cartoons until I was grown, and then I found a new and deeper appreciation for their creator's work.