who created the addams family

The Addams Family was created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The original Addams Family characters first appeared in a series of standalone single-panel cartoons published in The New Yorker, starting in 1938. Charles Addams developed the eccentric and macabre family as a satire, portraying their bizarre lives as normal from their perspective. The characters were unnamed initially and later named in the 1960s when the television series was developed. Addams continued to draw these cartoons until his death in 1988, and the family has since been adapted across various media including TV, film, and stage.