![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hungry cannibals, witches gathering around a cauldron, or a king over his blackbird pie often populated his celebrated cartoons. Addams’s style and originality make his tampering with tradition completely and hilariously acceptable.’ Chicago Tribuneįood and eating were a couple of Charles Addams’s favorite subjects. In his macabre, funny way, he has given Mother Goose a dimension even she would shudder at but only for a moment, because the wit and candor of it all are too irresistible and insanely comic to take exception to. ‘That clammy Addams touch never fails to hit its mark. Come with a hoop, Come with a call, Come with a good will, Or not at all.’ ‘Addams, master New Yorker cartoonist and black humor prankster par excellence, has thrown tradition to the winds and taken matters into his own bedeviled hands, transforming those endearing Mother Goose characters into gleefully wicked and outrageous beings from the farmer’s wife, seen sullenly cutting off the tails of those three blind mice with an electric knife, to Little Miss Muffet, scared half out of her mind by the size and leering grotesqueness of that big spider who sat down beside her. ‘Girls and boys, Come out to play, The moon does shine As bright as day. ![]()
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