Did you know there was a biography about New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams out in stores? Well, there is, and the Philadelphia Inquirer has a review:
It’s only natural we would be curious about someone who could make us laugh at what should be disturbing. His colleagues were regularly asked what he was really like, and there were stories that he was deranged. And Addams did do his best to appear as spooky and ooky as he could, collecting crossbows and mortuary equipment, painting his bathroom walls black, posing for a picture in a suit and a medieval knight’s helmet.
Now, for those who wish to know what he was really, really like, there is Linda H. Davis’ biography Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life.
What it reveals is a man who liked to have fun, who liked women, booze and fast cars, and whose life was equal parts Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Playboy adviser, and celebrity gossip.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
We’re allowed to use ooky now? The ban was lifted? Awesome. I can’t wait to pepper my every day conversations with as much ooky as I get get.
Sounds like my type of guy.
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Good to hear of a funny guy who had a fun life. I get a bit tired of the “You can’t be funny without being secretly miserable” theory.