Charles Addams #cartoons

Addams' cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956. There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered (1942) and Monster Rally (1950), the latter with a foreword by John O'Hara.


Typical of Addams' work, one cartoon shows two men standing in a room labeled "Patent Attorney". One is pointing a bizarre gun out the window toward the street and saying: "Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up!"

• Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was a friend of Addams, and owned two pieces of original Addams art.^[12] Hitchcock references Addams in his 1959 film, North by Northwest. During the auction scene, Cary Grant discovers three of his adversaries with someone whom he also thinks is against him and says: "The three of you together. Now that's a picture only Charles Addams could draw."^[13]