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Creature Comforts
Creature comforts is a new publication of Charles Addams, His first since the mid 1970. Strange animals, witches & Goblins fill these pages of this book.
110 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1981
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Charles Addams
49 books218 followersThe macabre humor and Gothic settings characterized many cartoons, first apparent in the New Yorker, of known American cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams.
Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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January 7, 2017
Oddly a Addams book I owned that I hadn't gotten around to reading! Seeing as this was a later book (early 80s) there were A LOT of pieces I had never seen before. I adore looking at his work and seeing how he influenced others, especially Jim Henson and the Muppets (dynamite anyone?) Also, Addams work seamlessly transitioned into a more modern era of surveillance and paranoia. Happy Birthday Chas!
January 28, 2020
Late period, so somewhat weaker, Addams gag panels. Not bad, but not his best.
January 17, 2023
Wickedly funny.
July 30, 2023
Picked this up at an Antiquarian Book Fair. I wasn’t very familiar with Addams’ work until this past December when I went to a temporary exhibit of his cartoons. Of course I knew the Addams Family, but was never a great fan. I was only vaguely aware that he did cartoons, but not that he did a lot of cartoons that were not Addams Family, which is what this book is comprised of.
They’re one-panel, with minimal text, and the humor is often subtle. I found myself having to studdy some of them to figure out where the humor was, and then it would click. A quick read, but very enjoyable.
They’re one-panel, with minimal text, and the humor is often subtle. I found myself having to studdy some of them to figure out where the humor was, and then it would click. A quick read, but very enjoyable.
December 29, 2022
Most of these were really good, a few not so much. Or it being over 40 years later, maybe the humor is just not of my time so I don't 'get' it. Worth checking out though, and a credit to Charles Addams that his amazing art and dark humor still holds up today!
December 4, 2017
Morbid humour.
May 5, 2018
I've enjoyed other comics by Charles Addams in the past, but I guess this book is for a previous generation because there were references that I did not understand.
June 26, 2018
A pretty neat collection of Charles Addams cartoons. Before, I'd only seen the errant Addams Family strip. I like his style, I like his surreal sense of humor. It's a great collection. Check it out!
October 22, 2019
Some of these were good, others not so much
July 17, 2021
Charles Addams never fails to make me deliriously happy.
January 18, 2023
Some clever, some banal, some inscrutable.
June 15, 2023
Had me laughing all through my lunch break.
October 19, 2016
Classic...but not too classic...Charles Addams!
My wife didn't know the Addams Family was a comic waaaay back when, so I found a couple books at my local library and checked them out.
People really need to understand that Addams was way ahead of his time and guys like Burton, Gorey, Hitchcock, Dali, and the early Disney imagineers were influenced by him. I read reprints when I was a kid and it was some funny, dark stuff.
A lot of these are very dated and don't make the best of sense unless you're from that period in time. Personally, I prefer his earlier work from the 40's, 50's, etc....and many of these are from the 70's and have a bit of a beatnik feel to it. It's not the greatest of collections, but it's still Addams!
My wife didn't know the Addams Family was a comic waaaay back when, so I found a couple books at my local library and checked them out.
People really need to understand that Addams was way ahead of his time and guys like Burton, Gorey, Hitchcock, Dali, and the early Disney imagineers were influenced by him. I read reprints when I was a kid and it was some funny, dark stuff.
A lot of these are very dated and don't make the best of sense unless you're from that period in time. Personally, I prefer his earlier work from the 40's, 50's, etc....and many of these are from the 70's and have a bit of a beatnik feel to it. It's not the greatest of collections, but it's still Addams!
September 16, 2008
Awesome
February 28, 2015
3.5 stars
April 18, 2015
What's not to love!?
March 27, 2021
Charming, silly and dark! Worth a read and a place on the toilet magazine rack.
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