Creature Comforts

by Charles Addams

Creature comforts is a new publication of Charles Addams, His first since the mid 1970. Strange animals, witches & Goblins fill these pages of this book.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Cartoon, Art, Fiction, The United States Of America, Comic Strips

110 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1981

About the author

The macabre humor and Gothic settings characterized many cartoons, first apparent in the New Yorker, of known American cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams.

Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

Reviews

[Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oddly a Addams book I owned that I hadn't gotten around to reading! Seeing as this was a later book (early 80s) there were A LOT of pieces I had never seen before. I adore looking at his work and seeing how he influenced others, especially Jim Henson and the Muppets (dynamite anyone?) Also, Addams work seamlessly transitioned into a more modern era of surveillance and paranoia. Happy Birthday Chas!

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Late period, so somewhat weaker, Addams gag panels. Not bad, but not his best.

[Corey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wickedly funny.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked this up at an Antiquarian Book Fair. I wasn’t very familiar with Addams’ work until this past December when I went to a temporary exhibit of his cartoons. Of course I knew the Addams Family, but was never a great fan. I was only vaguely aware that he did cartoons, but not that he did a lot of cartoons that were not Addams Family, which is what this book is comprised of.

They’re one-panel, with minimal text, and the humor is often subtle. I found myself having to studdy some of them to figure out where the humor was, and then it would click. A quick read, but very enjoyable.

[Jordan Whitlock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of these were really good, a few not so much. Or it being over 40 years later, maybe the humor is just not of my time so I don't 'get' it. Worth checking out though, and a credit to Charles Addams that his amazing art and dark humor still holds up today!

[Robin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've enjoyed other comics by Charles Addams in the past, but I guess this book is for a previous generation because there were references that I did not understand.

[Jon Hewelt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty neat collection of Charles Addams cartoons. Before, I'd only seen the errant Addams Family strip. I like his style, I like his surreal sense of humor. It's a great collection. Check it out!

[Renee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of these were good, others not so much

[Kellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Charles Addams never fails to make me deliriously happy.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some clever, some banal, some inscrutable.

[Francis Rose Trail · Rating 5 out of 5]

Had me laughing all through my lunch break.

[Al McCarty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Staggering genius.

[Mouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic...but not too classic...Charles Addams!
My wife didn't know the Addams Family was a comic waaaay back when, so I found a couple books at my local library and checked them out.
People really need to understand that Addams was way ahead of his time and guys like Burton, Gorey, Hitchcock, Dali, and the early Disney imagineers were influenced by him. I read reprints when I was a kid and it was some funny, dark stuff.
A lot of these are very dated and don't make the best of sense unless you're from that period in time. Personally, I prefer his earlier work from the 40's, 50's, etc....and many of these are from the 70's and have a bit of a beatnik feel to it. It's not the greatest of collections, but it's still Addams!

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Morbid humour.

I adore looking at his work and seeing how he influenced others, especially Jim Henson and the Muppets (dynamite anyone?) Also, Addams work seamlessly transitioned into a more modern era of surveillance and paranoia.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Awesome

[Kitap Yakıcı · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Roger · Rating 4 out of 5]

What's not to love!?

[Nicolas Hoffmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charming, silly and dark! Worth a read and a place on the toilet magazine rack.

[Canavan · Rating 4 out of 5]

✭✭✭½