Nightmare Fetishist: The man was openly into the dark and macabre.Human Head on the Wall: An unusual divorce settlement.
Fur Is Clothing: One cartoon depicts a bear leaving a fur-storage place in boxer shorts and sunglasses. For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: One cartoon depicts an Alien Invasion, with one of the invaders being greeted by a homeowner and told, "I'm sorry, sonny. Enfant Terrible: Shows up often, even besides the Addams family kids. but one of the reflections shows a demonic-looking horned monster in his place. Droste Image: Subverted in one cartoon, where an ordinary-looking man is reflected in a pair of barbershop mirrors to this effect. Deliberately Monochrome: Most cartoons are in black-and-white and take place in dark settings. One typical example has a woman inviting her husband to enter the house, while she has a gun aimed at the door. Death as Comedy: Again, done numerous times. Dada Comics: Occasionally ventures into this territory. He had his ultimately fatal heart attack while seated behind the wheel of one of his (parked) classic automobiles. Collector of the Strange: Addams himself. 
Chained to a Railway: Used as a gag more than once. while above him is a completely ransacked apartment with the owner Bound and Gagged. Ceiling Banger: One cartoon depicts a man angrily tapping his ceiling with his cane. Black Comedy: It's basically his trademark. Banana Peel: One of his more famous strips has a banana peel lying on a sidewalk, surrounded by barricades and Caution signs. Awful Wedded Life: Pretty much any depiction of a husband and wife involves one or the other either fantasizing about, actively plotting, or cleaning up after doing their spouse in. Artistic Title: Addams provided these for the films The Old Dark House (1963) and Murder by Death (1976). Other works by Charles Addams provide examples of the following tropes: Works by Charles Addams with their own pages: ( Fun fact: he actually was distantly related to John Adams and his family, despite the differences in surname spelling.) One set of his recurring characters became the basis for the television series (and later movies) The Addams Family, while Addams also drew such classic one-off cartoons as a skier somehow going around a tree on both sides at once a moustachioed villain with a young damsel slung over his shoulder heading down into a subway kiosk, presumably to tie her to the tracks and a banana peel lying on a busy city sidewalk, cordoned off by "caution" signs. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."Ī long-time contributor of cartoons to The New Yorker magazine, Charles Samuel Addams note or "Chas Addams", as he usually signed his artwork (Janu– September 29, 1988) specialized in whimsically grotesque scenes, which was evidently something of a case of Drawing What He Knew.
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