The first addams family comic5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() (Some of Addams' animal covers even seem to depict death camps.) "He tapped into the paranoia that is with us now more than ever" and poked at our capacity for evil, continues Mankoff, a longtime New Yorker cartoonist and cartoon editor. ![]() "And he was a progenitor of understanding the connection between humor and horror, (which) is hilarious because it's both disturbing and at the same time friendly. ![]() "Addams was one of the first to realize how much weirdness could be tolerated in a cartoon - how far apart the frames of reference could be and still mash up to make a joke work," says Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor for Air Mail and. Often, to pierce those social facades, the best rapier – as swordsman Gomez could appreciate – was the wit of the weird. ![]() "His target was conventional wisdom and conformity, but in crafting his loving portrayal of loners and monsters, he established archetypes that survived the test of time" – including the Addams children, Wednesday and Pugsley, plus looming butler Lurch (voiced by Vernon in the new movie), odd Uncle Fester and the potion-happy Grandmama. "He set out to undermine cliches," Mouly says. (The new animated film plays off that motif, with a villain whose reality-show goal is blind communal assimilation.) And by working behind the black mask of the macabre, Addams – a New Jersey native distantly related to the two Adams presidents – felt free to satirize social conventions, including the pressure to conform. ![]()
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