Man behind the macabre; The life and humor of Charles Addams.(BOOKS)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: November 12, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: John Greenya, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Cartooning "is the ideal work for the uncommitted." That quote from Ed Koren, the epigraph for this first-ever biography of Charles Addams, cartoonist extraordinaire, could not be more apt. Had Addams' habits been those of a man with a conventional occupation, they would have quickly marked that man as eccentric, perhaps even bizarre.

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