Charles Addams, The Addams Family: An Evilution (Pomergranate, $39.95). All of the 200-plus surviving cartoons–many of them previously unpublished–featuring the members of the decidedly creepy family that “graced” the pages of The New Yorker for a half-century. If you only know the Addams family through its various incarnations on TV and in film, you’re missing most of the point of the output of one of the most gifted and original cartoonists of the twentieth century (TT).
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
