The Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams

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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 of America
surface form: United States
creator Charles Addams
depicts The Addams Family (1991 film)
surface form: 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 (1991 film)
surface form: The Addams Family (musical)
notableFor deadpan humor
influential pop culture family
morbid visual gags
originalLanguage English
originallyPublishedInDecade 1930s
partOf The New Yorker
surface form: The New Yorker cartoons
publicationMedium magazine
publisher The New Yorker
setIn unspecified American setting
targetAudience adult readers
workOf Charles Addams

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subject surface form: The Addams Family (1991 film)
this entity surface form: The Addams Family (cartoon characters by Charles Addams)