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This review is from: Dear Dead Days (A Family Album) (Hardcover)
I bought this book having read about it within Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life & World Of Charles Addams (which can be read together, biography and life work reference). This book is a pictorial source book referencing and reprinting photographs and illustrations of inspiration. Any serious student of Addams visual style will appreciate the content. The book is arranged in chapters: Growing up, Killing Time, Around the House (my favorite due to some exquisite architectural illustrations {the source(s) of that wonderful Addams family house!!}), Rx (medical prescriptions), Notions and Novelties, Remains to be Seen, and Fiends and Relations. Some of the photographs are quite morbid and not recommended for young children or readers with a weak constitution.
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Amazing Collection,
This review is from: Dear Dead Days (A Family Album) (Hardcover)
I'll admit I had no idea what to expect when I opened the book a few years ago. I was familiar with "Addams and Evil," "Black Maria," and other assorted classic Chas Addams cartoons from the New Yorker days. We had a tattered copy of "Addams and Evil" that my sisters & I pored over tirelessly when we were little. So obviously my warping in that respect began when I was quite young. Yes, back to the book. It is NOT as other reviews stated full of cartoons. It is a twisted macabre journey through the human mind's process of life, death, and the workings of these processes. I was transfixed by the book - I couldn't put it down. I thought it was brilliant and like most of Mr. Addam's work, years before its time. The book continues the humor that we think of ourselves as "civilized" and shreds the facade we build around ourselves. It represents everything I love about Chas' work - warped, surreal, and terrifically dark. You know if you'll like it by reading these reviews. I just wanted to add my opinion to the fold, especially on the 100th anniversary of Charles Addams' birthday. May he rest in peace (or pieces.)
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Not for the faint of heart,
By Robin Hood "We're All Mad Here" (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dear Dead Days (A Family Album) (Hardcover)
I should have researched this book better before striking out to find a copy of it. I thought it was a collection of Charles Addams cartoons pertaining to the Addams family.
It's not. It's....um. Hmmm. Disturbing. There's a word. Instead of being the collection of cartoons I was hoping for, this is more like a collection of human oddities of the sort that the Addams family might have collected: Pictures of disasters. Artists renderings of disasters. Medical oddities. Siamese twins. Unnatural deaths. Which is possibly hysterical when viewed, momentarily, as a part of the Addams family. But which is shocking (and not in a good fun way) when viewed upon opening the package. It's thorough, I'll give it that. Disturbingly thorough. I'm probably going to stick this copy on ebay, if anyone wants it. The only reason I don't give it one star is that someone (probably Charles Addams) went to a great deal of time and trouble to assemble this collection, and the effort should be rewarded. I repeat: not for the faint of heart.
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