Dear Dead Days. A Family Album - Hardback - First Edition - 1959. By Charles Addams
Published by PAUL HAMLYN, 1st edition, pp. 126, dimensions 22 x 28, hardcover binding with wrapper. Wrapper rubbed at edges with small losses, inside good condition.
Dear Dead Days is a bizarre collection of cartoons, photographs and illustrations published by Charles Addams in 1959 with the ironic subtitle "Family Album." Macabre humor and gothic settings characterize many of the cartoons, first shown in The New Yorker.
Illustrator Charles Addams was born on January 7, 1912 in Westfield, New Jersey. It was his father who encouraged the rebellious "rascal" to draw, starting with caricatures for a school literary magazine. His first job was at True Detective magazine, where he had to retouch photos of corpses appearing in stories. Known for his macabre humor, Addams said: "Many of the corpses were more interesting as they were. "Charles Addams first introduced his Addams Family to the world in a cartoon published in 1938 in The New Yorker magazine. Here we see Grandma Frump, Wednesday, Gomez, Morticia, Lurch, Pugsley and Uncle Fester, but Addams has been refining these beloved characters over the years. His first comic strip appeared in The New Yorker six years earlier, in 1932.
Published by PAUL HAMLYN, 1st edition, pp. 126, dimensions 22 x 28, hardcover binding with wrapper. Wrapper rubbed at edges with small losses, inside good condition.
Dear Dead Days is a bizarre collection of cartoons, photographs and illustrations published by Charles Addams in 1959 with the ironic subtitle "Family Album." Macabre humor and gothic settings characterize many of the cartoons, first shown in The New Yorker.
Illustrator Charles Addams was born on January 7, 1912 in Westfield, New Jersey. It was his father who encouraged the rebellious "rascal" to draw, starting with caricatures for a school literary magazine. His first job was at True Detective magazine, where he had to retouch photos of corpses appearing in stories. Known for his macabre humor, Addams said: "Many of the corpses were more interesting as they were. "Charles Addams first introduced his Addams Family to the world in a cartoon published in 1938 in The New Yorker magazine. Here we see Grandma Frump, Wednesday, Gomez, Morticia, Lurch, Pugsley and Uncle Fester, but Addams has been refining these beloved characters over the years. His first comic strip appeared in The New Yorker six years earlier, in 1932.
