Much better than the comic it's based on.
this is just my opinon but it's much better than the comic.
shareI'm not sure about that, but it's much better than the 1990's movie series.
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the comics was way darker. I think the movies was more like the comics. I loved the show, I think they did the show the right way for a tv series. I like them both
shareCharles Addams is generally considered one of the greatest cartoonists of all time.
The Addams family television show is mostly relegated to the status of campy 60s trivia.
There is a reason for these things.
What comic would that be, OP? Do you mean "comic" as in "Gold Key comic book"? https://www.google.com/search?q=addams+family+comic+book&site=webhp&tbm=isch&imgil=GDePz_LilU3xVM%253A%253BgcdblukGV8ZlkM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.mycom
Because in that case, the TV show--live action, non-animated--came first.
However, long before either the comic books or the series starring Carolyn Jones and John Astin, the great Creepy Cartoonist and Master of the Macabre, Charles Addams, created many individual (print) cartoons, most memorably for The New Yorker magazine. Among them, of course, could be found recurring snapshots in the lives of a rather...unconventional...but congenial!...family, consisting of a mother, a father, two children, a grandmamma, an uncle, and a butler. These were the cartoons that inspired the TV series.
The comic books--apparently based on a Hanna-Barbera animated series--came later.
And from what I've seen--admittedly not having had the pleasure of reading a single issue of that comic--I'd be willing to bet you're right, OP. The comics do look pretty lame.
None of the foregoing changes the prevailing opinion that Charles Addams was a genius among cartoonists/illustrators.
Perhaps a bit disturbed, but definitely a genius.
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What comic would that be, OP?*
The one panel comic from the Sunday express newspaper, do you not call them comics in the US?.
Spcifically the "My crowd" book that came with the VHS.
"Sunday express newspaper [comics]" brings to mind the retro US colloquialism "Sunday funnies", aka the "funny papers".
In the US, the stand-alone one-panel version is more commonly called a "cartoon". But they're also called "comics".
I ought to mention that this is a "layperson"'s response. I expect that members of the graphic arts subculture have an extensive nomenclature or lexicon of proper terms, and zealously enforce them.
I started to carelessly write that in the US, the term "comics" usually refers to "comic books". But then I remembered that "comic books" were rebranded "graphic novels"-- at least, some of them have been, and I have no idea what the "rules" are.
So I'm bailing out before some supercilious zealot shows up to correct me with extreme prejudice. 😉
The one panel comic from the Sunday express newspaper, do you not call them comics in the US?.
Yes, we do. That guy is just being a pretentious douche. share