Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books
Today is the story of January 7th
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It is the seventh day of the year, leaving 358 days remaining in 2023.
He told his macabre stories in pen and ink, mostly on the pages of The New Yorker magazine, starting in 1932. The cartoons often showed grotesque humans or human-like monsters, such as vampires or zombies, in stereotypical family-type situation. One group evolved into the Addams Family.
One cartoon, for instance, showed a man in a darkened room reading family lore to his children. The caption showed him bragging about an uncle who "left the world a little worse for his having lived in it."
Addams also illustrated books and movie posters. His drawings were adapted to other media, including the television show, The Addams Family, which aired in the 1960s.
His cartoons and drawings were combined into collections, beginning with Drawn and Quartered in 1942. Several more followed, with the last, Creature Comforts, being published in 1981.
Addams died in 1988.
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