Spooky 'Addams Family' Logo Celebrates Macabre Cartoonist

[LuvNewcastle]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/charles-addams-google-doodle-spooky-addams-family-logo-celebrates-macabre-cartoonist/2012/01/06/gIQAOrCFgP_blog.html

To celebrate the centennial of the late, great cartoonist’s birth, Google today features a deft ghoulish “Doodle” in honor of Charles Addams, the longtime New Yorker magazine contributor who was a master of the macabre and a brilliant wit of the weird.

Of course, to many fans, Addams is best known for his namesake cartoon family that has leapt from page to soundstage to Broadway stage. Long after its single-panel creation, “The Addams Family” enjoys an entertainment immortality befitting the otherwordly brood.

Addams’s inspired tribe — headed by the wealthy, mustachioed Gomez and alabaster, raven-locked wife Morticia — already has an afterlife of several generations. Even the spooky, ooky lyrics and finger-snapping tune from the ‘60s TV show — which featured the “misadventures of a blissfully macabre family” — seem destined to hum in human brains for eons, an earworm for all eternity.

To pay tribute to Addams and his Family, Google’s search homepage spotlights Gomez and Morticia in the front of the logo’s “G”; Cousin Itt holding the “O”; young Pugsley in the “G” of a guillotine next to sister Wednesday (whose favorite toy was Marie Antoinette); towering butler Lurch grasps the ”L”; and Uncle Fester chomps down on the “E.”

[Tx4obama]

1. That's cool. Hey everyone be sure to not miss the FOUR videos on the OP link above.

Thank you for posting this 'current event'

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Long before the TV series and Broadway musical, I loved the ghoulish dark humor in

the cartoons of Charles Addams, usually found in The New Yorker magazine and in collections in books.

[Auggie]

3. Same here. He was marvelously creative.

[zbdent]

4. Lots of people don't realize that the "Addams Family" characters didn't have names

until the TV series ...

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I found the Addams Family in a backwards kind of way --

I saw the reruns as a kid. I didn't find out about the cartoons until I was grown, and then I found a new and deeper appreciation for their creator's work.