Chas Addams Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of You
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Addams's concept of love was quite a bit different from the traditional idea of romance. Forget roses and chocolate, Addams will show you how to woo a mermaid or celebrate an anniversary on a desert island. Or how to keep your husband on a leash—literally. Learn what to do when your prince stays a frog, even after you've kissed him.
Compiled from Addams's personal archive, many of these cartoons are previously unpublished gems, while others are Addams classics. The cartoons in Chas Addams Happily Ever After run the gamut from ecstatic love to disappointed affection to murderous obsession and demonstrate that love really does hurt.
Charles Addams
Chas Addams was the creator of the "Addams Family" cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker and were the inspiration for the popular The Addams Family television show and movies. He has been honored with the Yale Humor Award (1954) and a Special Edgar Award for "Cartoonist of the Macabre" from the Mystery Writers of America. Addams died in 1988 in New York City.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a rare insight into the twisted mind of Chas Addams.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Dark humor and pretty drawings. I unfortunately didn´t understand all of the jokes though (could be because the jokes are old, or because english is not my first language) and I was expecting more of the Addams family, which I got nothing of...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very macabre, but a fun little look into the weird and spooky humor of Mr. Addams.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Having grown up with the Addams family, I have always found Charles Addams cartoons irresistible. One thing that surprises me with every anthology I purchase is how much he did that had nothing to do with the family at all. This book is full of cartoons about couples. Since it's Addams its mostly about people finding ingenious ways to rid themselves of an unwanted spouse. Let your "loved one" read it at your own risk. -- Billie
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Chas Addams Happily Ever After - Charles Addams
Chas Addams
Happily Ever After
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Many of the cartoons in this book were previously published in other books and periodicals. See page 163 for acknowledgments.
Photograph on page vii © 1980, Lane Stewart.
Photograph on page viii © 1980, R. Thurber
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Addams, Charles, 1912-1988
Happily ever after/Chas Addams.
p. cm.
1. American wit and humor, Pictorial. 2. Love—Caricatures and cartoons. 3. Marriage—Caricatures and cartoons. I. Title.
NC1429.A25A4 2006
741.5′973—dc22
2005054663
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-6777-9
ISBN-10: 0-7432-6777-X
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