The Addams Family: Devilution

The story of this eccentric family began long before television and film interpretations made its members icons of American mass culture. Back then, still unnamed, Morticia, Lurch, and Thing debuted in 1938 in The New Yorker magazine. For the next 26 years, the clan grew in depth and expanded in number in the drawings of its demiurge. In 1964, the Addamses conquered the small screens on ABC, and in 1991, they appeared on the big screens as well. «The Addams Family: Devilution» is the first book about the history of the franchise. Inside, you will find over 200 caricatures by Charles Addams (1912–1988), created over the years of his creative career; many of them have not been published before. The author, Kevin Miserocchi, director of the «Tee and Charles Addams Foundation», researched the development of all clan members (for example, did you know that Pugsley was to be named Pubert?) and provided each chapter with texts by Addams himself. This book is a tribute to one of America's greatest cartoonists, his irresistibly dark sense of humor, and astonishing artistic mastery.