Sunday, June 16, 2024

Charles Addams: A Sort of Self-Portrait

Addams had long claimed that he looked like the Addams Family's toothless grinning ghoul, Uncle Fester, "only with more hair."
—Linda H. Davis
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life (2006, 2021), p. 11


Charles Addams's biographer got it right. He alludes to the resemblance again in a 1957 presentation drawing dedicated to a Mr. Wiggins. The drawing was sold a decade ago at RR Auction.

Charles Addams
RR Auction listing of June 26, 2014

Charles Addams
RR Auction item description


Note:  Got an original Charles Addams drawing like this one? Send me a picture and I just might post it.




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