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Comedy—the theme of this year’s Archive Issue—is forever present in the work of the late cover artist Charles Addams. This image originally ran, without a title, as the cover of the February 2, 1963, issue. Addams, whose first illustration for the magazine was published in 1932, went on to produce more than sixty covers and more than eleven hundred cartoons—dozens of which featured the characters that came to be known as the Addams family. In 1988, at the age of seventy-six, Addams died of a heart attack which occurred as he was sitting in his car in front of his apartment building. “He’s always been a car buff, so it was a nice way to go,” his wife Marilyn, who shared his penchant for macabre humor, told the Times.
For more covers by Charles Addams, see below:
“March 28, 1959”
“February 11, 1961”
“December 19, 1977”
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Sourse: newyorker.com
