The Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams

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cartoon series single-panel comic series

The Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams are a series of macabre, darkly humorous single-panel comics depicting an eccentric gothic family, originally published in The New Yorker starting in the 1930s.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cartoon series → single-panel comic series →
artStyle	pen-and-ink illustration → single-panel gag cartoon →
basedOn	original characters by Charles Addams →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
creator	Charles Addams →
depicts	The Addams Family → dark humor → eccentric family → gothic family → macabre situations →
featuresLocation	Addams family mansion →
firstPublicationVenue	The New Yorker →
genre	black comedy → dark comedy → gothic fiction → macabre fiction →
hasCharacter	Cousin Itt → Grandmama Addams → Lurch → Pugsley Addams → Thing → Uncle Fester → Wednesday Addams →
hasMainCharacter	Gomez Addams → Morticia Addams →
hasPublicationFormat	single-panel cartoon →
hasTheme	death → inversion of social norms → satire of American family life → the macabre →
inspired	The Addams Family (1964 TV series) → The Addams Family (1991 film) → The Addams Family (1993 film) → The Addams Family (2019 animated film) → The Addams Family (musical) →
notableFor	deadpan humor → influential pop culture family → morbid visual gags →
originalLanguage	English →
originallyPublishedInDecade	1930s →
partOf	The New Yorker cartoons →
publicationMedium	magazine →
publisher	The New Yorker →
setIn	unspecified American setting →
targetAudience	adult readers →
workOf	Charles Addams →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Addams ("The Addams Family (via Charles Addams)") →	associatedWithFictionalFranchise
The Addams Family (1991 film) ("The Addams Family by Charles Addams") →	basedOn
Maila Nurmi →	inspiredBy