{"id":11021,"date":"2014-11-08T05:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2014-11-02T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:48:57","slug":"the-strange-life-of-the-man-who-created-the-addams-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11021","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Life of the Man Who Created &#8220;The Addams Family&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z110814charles_addams.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"743\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Charles Addams<\/strong>, the creator of <em><strong>The Addams Family<\/strong><\/em>, \u00a0was a strange bird. \u00a0Although <strong>Addams<\/strong> had a normal childhood, his cartoons hinted at a darker side&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0&#8230;Instead of a standard coffee table, Addams used a Civil War-era embalming table. He also kept a collection of antique crossbows above his sofa, and he used a young girl\u2019s tombstone (\u201cLittle Sarah, Aged Three\u201d) as a perch for his cocktails&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Addams<\/strong> married two different women who looked like the character <strong>Morticia<\/strong> from his cartoons (and his second wife even had her nose fixed to look more like the character). \u00a0<strong>Addams<\/strong> married his third wife in a pet cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the course of his career&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Addams illustrated 68 covers for <em>The New Yorker<\/em> and contributed more than 1,300 cartoons to the magazine&#8221; &#8212; His most popular creation the comic strip\u00a0The Addams Family &#8220;spawned two live-action television series, two animated cartoons, and two blockbuster feature films.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surprisingly <em><strong>The Addams Family<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0tv show got his cartoons banned from <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong> and after his divorce his second wife controlled the rights to the tv series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You get the full details of <strong>Addams<\/strong> interesting life if you click over to the very interesting piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2014\/10\/31\/Light-Heart-Dark-Humor-The-Man-Behind-The-Addams-Family\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Light Heart; Dark Humor: The Man Behind The Addams Family<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0 by\u00a0<strong>Bill DeMain<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Neatorama<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Addams, the creator of The Addams Family, \u00a0was a strange bird. \u00a0Although Addams had a normal childhood, his cartoons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-horror","category-humor","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11022,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}