![]() ![]() Series creator David Levy proposed the idea of the show by saying that it was critical to create full characters based on the creations of Addams. ![]() He would go on to publish more than 50 comic strips featuring The Addams Family prior to the television series. ![]() ![]() They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker between 1938 and their creator's death in 1988. In 1938, his first comic featuring The Addams Family was published. As for Foster, she chimes in with a line here and there: "Dad, look!", "A moon ride?", "Hey!" No wonder she never mentions this. The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They didn't even bother coloring in the whites of the villains' eyes. Wouldn't kids get a bigger kick out of the Addams' just doing their spooky business at home? And why is so much time spent on the talky adults? Were they just easier to draw? The animation throughout (despite several Japanese names in the credits) is cheap and lousy, like Colorforms set to motion. So much of the action is spent on the sloppily-drawn villains that the main characters get lost in the shuffle (especially Wednesday and Pugsly, the latter voiced by a pre-teen Jodie Foster). In one of the episodes I was unfortunate enough to see, the Addams' were duped into a phony rocket ride to the moon (bad guys want to steal their house, which now doubles as the family car). Not the live action show, or the 90s films. A Hanna-Barbera mistake: cartoon-izing Charles Addams' Goth family for cheap, low-rent yuks. The original AddamsFamily was the comic strip by Charles Addams. ![]()
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