This still-shot comes from the inspired, short, legendary TV series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(1964_TV_series)
Now, if I tried to talk about The Addams Family here, then we'd be here all day, and much of that time would frankly be down to me bumbling around for words and specific episodes I half-remembered.
But actually, the whole franchise started with Charles Addams' deliciously, lovingly-morbid Addams Family comic art & strip series. You're in LUCK though if you were looking for that kind of thing, because one of our comics-sharing historians here has you covered!
That would be my mate @nocturne@slrpnk.net, who's taking the time to scan and upload his books / material to help create a comprehensive, major picture of the classic Addams cartoons.
That goodness is shared at this sub (altho there are maybe other places I don't know about):
!comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone
New Jersey? Really?
Oh baby, the floor is YOURS, not-Rick!
Charles Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, on Sunday, January 7, 1912. He was the son of Grace M. (née Spear; 1879–1943) and Charles Huey Addams (1873–1932), a piano company executive who had studied to be an architect. Known as "something of a rascal around the neighborhood," as childhood friends recalled.
A house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue – into which police once caught him breaking and entering – are said to be [some of] the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons.
Huh!
His bad-boy arc sounds kind of fascinating, honestly.
Oh, btw... please let me know if anything needs correcting in the post. I feel like I did reasonably-well, but that maybe I forgot something important. :S
It is a great post with I think just the right amount of info without going too deep. If people want deeper there is a great info in my comic posts, and some of the comments get even deeper into the history.
Hell, I saved it immediately for rabbitholing later, so you got me curious, certainly!
For real? NJ is the most densely populated state in the country, is the really that surprising that good shit can come from there?
By the way, have you ever eaten pizza in NJ? You can't swing a cat in that state without hitting like six restaurants that will all make the best pizza you've ever had before entering the state.
Uh... wow, I meant no shade on NJ, specifically.
Sorry if it seemed like I was throwing shade.
Some of my favorite life memories are hanging out on Jersey Shores. (my relatives had a long-time beach house there)
Sorry for any rudeness on my part.
(and btw, I learned to make pizza by hand when I was 17yo, sucker)
😙
Pizza in NJ is just next level. If you know, you know.
Yes and no.
Ever been to Italy..?
NYC dollar slice pizza all day.
Truth!