He continued there until his death in 1988, drawing over 1,300 cartoons.ĭuring the run of the original television series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons, though he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. In 1940, he submitted "Downhill Skier," which earned him an offer to come on board full-time for New York's premier literary magazine. His cartoons appeared regularly in the magazine beginning in 1938, when he created the first instance of what became known as The Addams Family. It debuted Februas a sophisticated humor magazine, welcoming many important cartoonists to its stable.Ĭharles Addams began as a cartoonist in the The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6, 1932. The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine published by Condé Nast.
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