![]() ![]() ![]() Though Addams himself died in 1988, at 76, the entertainment/licensing machine has never stopped chugging, including the Addams Family TV show (which he reluctantly agreed to in 1964 he was banned from ever running the characters in The New Yorker again, lest he debase the magazine) and two high-grossing films (Tim Burton also recently announced his plan to make a new Addams Family movie in 3-D). ![]() They are off-kilter, but in a gentle way.” The family lives in this big house, they love each other, and do things together, but the things they do are bizarre. Addams is so distinctive as a Gothic artist because there is something sweet and whimsical about his work. “It’s the New York we think we know, but they show the abnormality embedded within us. “The city that Addams depicts is populated out of the 1950s culture, the men are in suits and ties, the women are housewives and secretaries,” Henry continues. ![]()
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