The macabre humor and Gothic settings characterized many cartoons, first apparent in the New Yorker, of known American cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams.
Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.
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“To live without you, only that would be torture.""A day alone, only that would be death.”
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
“It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.”
“Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.”
“...and the rest is taxidery. --Morticia Addams (The Addams Family”