Addams, a cartoonist born in Westfield in 1912, created the Addams Family in the 1930s. The first cartoon depicting the characters was published by The New Yorker in 1937. After the ’90s movies ...

Although he drew thousands of cartoons throughout his career, Addams is best known ... those loosely connected characters experienced an "evilution" into a family: Morticia, her husband Gomez ...