Addams, Charles 

Cartoonist  Charles Addams delighted America with his good natured ghoulishness and the humor he injected into everyday life. In his cartoon a young witch asks her mother Can I have the broom tonight and Princes Charming complains to a marriage counselors, ''We're not living happily ever after.'' Addams's fiends and demon sprang from the glossy pages the New Yorker where his work was first published in 1932 and where he worked until his death in 1983. His most popular cartoons featured a creepy brown that became known as the Addams's Family reader saw the Addams children prepare  for Santa's visit by lighting a roaring fire in the fireplace and the whole family greet holiday carrier with a vat  of boiling oil. This outlandish family was so well liked it starred in its own television show in the 1980's and later  in two movies.