The Addams Family began not as a family, but as single nameless characters in Charles Addams’ single panel comics in the New Yorker.

I have looked for some time trying to find a publication order for the strips, but have come up empty handed. So I will be sharing them in the order they appear in the book Drawn And Quartered on Wednesdays.

I know i switched books since last week, but as this was the first compilation released, i have a feeling there order will be more true to how they were released originally.

Drawn and Quartered title page with Pugsley.

Pugsy was not named until 1964, with the release of the TV Show.

Today we have three character that appears to be Morticia. Charles Addams’ first wife was always assumed to be the inspiration for Morticia, but he met her years after the character’s creation. He insisted the character was based on the qualities he found appealing in a woman, so it made sense he would marry someone who resembles Morticia.

  • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
    0·
    1 day ago

    The Addams family started in the New Yorker in 1938, a full 26 years before the TV show aired.

    The family members were unnamed until the 1960s. Matriarch Morticia and daughter Wednesday received their names when a licensed doll collection was released in 1962.