Learn Happy 100Th Birthday, Charles Samuel Addams
From fourth dimension to fourth dimension nosotros invite guests to post service almost items of involvement as well as are pleased to convey H. Kevin Miserocchi, executive manager of the Tee as well as Charles Addams Foundation, bring together us today to verbalize almost cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams. Addams is best known equally the creator of the Addams Family, as well as is the dependent plain of a doodle today inwards accolade of his 100th birthday. -Ed.
I spent the summertime of 1979 fundraising with Tee Matthews Miller for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. We spent most of our fourth dimension inwards the abode she shared with her cartoonist paramour—and likewise many dogs as well as cats to name—during his weekends away from Manhattan. I’d met her partner several times earlier I realized that behind all the stacks of newspaper as well as collectibles as well as layers of dust as well as pet fur inwards Tee’s purpose den, the walls were decorated with familiar art. Not simply whatsoever art—the master copy artwork from the pages of The New Yorker magazines that my blood brother as well as I had cutting upwardly or crayoned across when nosotros were boys. Tee’s beau was the Charles Addams—the 1 with 2 d’s. I was home, as well as our friendship was forever cemented.
They were married inwards Tee’s pet cemetery inwards Water Mill, NY inwards 1980—a surprise for the lx guests coming for cocktails during the Memorial Day weekend. The marriage ceremony political party all wore black. It was the matrimony of a wonderful adult woman of gentle spirit as well as peachy generosity as well as a beguiling human with a subtly wicked feel of humor. Bashful as well as soft-spoken equally he was, he had a devil-child glint inwards his eyes as well as a Lugosi-like oral fissure when he laughed, showing none of his teeth.
Eleven years subsequently his 1988 death, his widow as well as I formed the not-for-profit Tee as well as Charles Foundation to protect his legacy equally an extraordinary cartoonist with a painterly technique, as well as to prepare people almost Charlie’s gift past times exhibiting his function worldwide. Following Tee’s passing inwards 2002, the Foundation dedicated the couple’s Sagaponack homestead, “The Swamp,” equally a museum. They had moved at that topographic point inwards the mid-1980s, as well as inwards truthful Addams style, they took their cemetery with them—a sweetness identify where their ashes are interred with those of their love dogs as well as cats.
Of the thousands of plant Charlie published inwards his 55 years of cartooning, exclusively 150 were devoted to the grouping of characters who became known equally The Addams Family. But the perfectly off-center humour behind these characters won worldwide adoration fifty-fifty earlier they became the telly as well as cinema menage unit of measurement nosotros know today. Even for those who never had the thrill of knowing the classy gentleman behind this unique art, Charlie’s menage unit of measurement continues to capture the hearts of novel generations of cartoon aficionados. We promise today’s doodle inspires y'all to assay out to a greater extent than of his work.
I spent the summertime of 1979 fundraising with Tee Matthews Miller for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. We spent most of our fourth dimension inwards the abode she shared with her cartoonist paramour—and likewise many dogs as well as cats to name—during his weekends away from Manhattan. I’d met her partner several times earlier I realized that behind all the stacks of newspaper as well as collectibles as well as layers of dust as well as pet fur inwards Tee’s purpose den, the walls were decorated with familiar art. Not simply whatsoever art—the master copy artwork from the pages of The New Yorker magazines that my blood brother as well as I had cutting upwardly or crayoned across when nosotros were boys. Tee’s beau was the Charles Addams—the 1 with 2 d’s. I was home, as well as our friendship was forever cemented.
They were married inwards Tee’s pet cemetery inwards Water Mill, NY inwards 1980—a surprise for the lx guests coming for cocktails during the Memorial Day weekend. The marriage ceremony political party all wore black. It was the matrimony of a wonderful adult woman of gentle spirit as well as peachy generosity as well as a beguiling human with a subtly wicked feel of humor. Bashful as well as soft-spoken equally he was, he had a devil-child glint inwards his eyes as well as a Lugosi-like oral fissure when he laughed, showing none of his teeth.
Eleven years subsequently his 1988 death, his widow as well as I formed the not-for-profit Tee as well as Charles Foundation to protect his legacy equally an extraordinary cartoonist with a painterly technique, as well as to prepare people almost Charlie’s gift past times exhibiting his function worldwide. Following Tee’s passing inwards 2002, the Foundation dedicated the couple’s Sagaponack homestead, “The Swamp,” equally a museum. They had moved at that topographic point inwards the mid-1980s, as well as inwards truthful Addams style, they took their cemetery with them—a sweetness identify where their ashes are interred with those of their love dogs as well as cats.
Of the thousands of plant Charlie published inwards his 55 years of cartooning, exclusively 150 were devoted to the grouping of characters who became known equally The Addams Family. But the perfectly off-center humour behind these characters won worldwide adoration fifty-fifty earlier they became the telly as well as cinema menage unit of measurement nosotros know today. Even for those who never had the thrill of knowing the classy gentleman behind this unique art, Charlie’s menage unit of measurement continues to capture the hearts of novel generations of cartoon aficionados. We promise today’s doodle inspires y'all to assay out to a greater extent than of his work.