The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
More Articles:Most Viewed:(5681 views)(3888 views)(1256 views)(865 views)(751 views)(702 views)They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky. But get that song outta your head.The creatives behind the $16.5 million tuner adaptation of "The Addams Family," playing an out-of-town tryout in Chicago ahead of a Broadway run that opens April 8, have set aside the property's familiar TV and...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
When Culture Monster first heard that producers were planning a stage musical of "The Addams Family," we weren't sure if they could pull off the signature ghoulish aesthetic that Charles Addams immortalized in his cartoons in the New Yorker. Having...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Filed under: OpEd , Casting , Reality-Free The Addams Family is coming back. No, this times it's not a TV series, nor a motion picture. No, this time Broadway is taking Charles Addams' amazing dysfunctional gothic family and putting their antics to music. That's right, The Addams Family is becoming a Broadway musical . One of the things that sounds really promising about...
Beginning To Wonder (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
My mother swears this is true: The first time anyone ever heard me laugh was when my older brother sneaked up on my crib, peeked over and scared the wits out of me by yelling "Boo!" Clearly, I was born with a twisted sense of humor, a truth which is borne out by my early fascination with the cartoons of Charles Addams. Addams' work appeared regularly in The New Yorker,...
Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Carson Pirie Scott The new musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams , is making its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago. Preview performances in Chicago began, Friday, November 13 … see more. See also: macys | carson pirie scott website | carson | carson [...]
Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... old woman'” – Henry Martin And getting top billing is the incomparable (and noted car guy) Charles Addams: Included are contributions from writers like “A Christmas Story” author Jean Shepherd. “My Dream Car” Good to the last drop. think small is not a rare volume; in fact, a web search turned up many copies available from booksellers all over the country. If you’re a fan of vintage...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... that The New Yorker publishes the best cartoons out there. Works by such favorites Peter Arno, Charles Addams, Sam Gross, Syd Hoff, George Booth, George Price, and Gahan Wilson. It’s the market all cartoonists aspire to. Over the years I’ve amassed several of their cartoon anthologies, but never before had there been a collection as complete as this. The book is divided...
My Pink Half Of The Drain Pipe (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... different, less laboured in both ink and text. New Yorker cartoonists like Saul Steinberg and Charles Addams created modern cartooning. In the pages of the New Yorker, they introduced surrealism into cartooning, the ability to have anything on the page, be it talking animals or postmodern rocks, and established the eternal themes for cartoonists, men on desert islands, Death calling...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... of the tales are short stories, some very brief. Some of the characters were co-conceived with Charles Addams, who would later use them as inspiration for his famous Addams Family . The Elliotts have been around for over four millenia, so you can imagine that the 'family get together' takes on an entirely different light, as their concept of history is far removed from our...
Michael May's Adventureblog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... Horror Comics . I'll send you to the post to see the write-ups, but the list was: 1. The Work of Charles Addams 2. Casper the Friendly Ghost 3. The Cryptics 4. Boneyard 5. The Goon 6. Arsenic Lullabies
Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Charles Addams - First published in The New Yorker on November 1, 1952 (OvO)
The Vault of Buncheness (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... I was in high school, after which it became one of my favorite records, appealing to the more Charles Addams aspects of my sensibilities.) Anyway, "Timothy" is surprisingly sprightly for a tune so dark, punctuated as it is by chirpy strings and a melody you'd totally ignore...until you paid attention to the lyrics, which are found below in an effort to have some appropriate...
Rock Turtleneck (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Vic Mizzy , who wrote the Addams Family theme song , perhaps the greatest of all TV themes, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. It is spooky that he should leave us so close to Hallowe'en , the time of year when his creepy and cooky and all together ooky tune is most appreciated. The show was based on the popular black-humor cartoons by Charles Addams , which ran in the New...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Songwriter who created The Addams Family theme
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Songwriter who created The Addams Family theme
