Charles Addams: The Addams Family Snowmen Holiday Cards

Charles Addams (American, 1912–1988)
Favorite Haunts, book jacket, 1976

Charles Addams created Morticia, Lurch, and The Thing for a 1938 cartoon published in the New Yorker. Other family characters were born and developed in the multitude of cartoons Addams produced over the next twenty-six years, before the ghoulishly cheerful clan debuted on television in 1964, on the big screen in 1991, and on Broadway in 2010.