Charles Addams was one of The New Yorker’s most distinctive and influential cartoonists, contributing his deliciously macabre drawings to the magazine from the 1930s until his death in 1988. His elegant, deadpan humour transformed the sinister and supernatural into something strangely domestic and endearing. From his cartoons emerged the wonderfully eccentric Addams Family, later immortalised on television and film. In my latest 3D portrait, I’ve placed Addams beside his most famous creation, Morticia, elegant and inscrutable in black, accompanied by her rather unlikely pet alligator. I wanted the piece to suggest Addams himself stepping quietly into the peculiar world he created.
Charles Addams
Charles Addams was one of The New Yorker’s most distinctive and influential cartoonists, contributing his deliciously macabre drawings to the magazine from the 1930s until his death in 1988. His elegant, deadpan humour transformed the sinister and supernatural into something strangely domestic and endearing. From his cartoons emerged the wonderfully eccentric Addams Family, later immortalised on television and film. In my latest 3D portrait, I’ve placed Addams beside his most famous creation, Morticia, elegant and inscrutable in black, accompanied by her rather unlikely pet alligator. I wanted the piece to suggest Addams himself stepping quietly into the peculiar world he created.