Charles addams biography

1912

• Born January 7 to Grace M.

  Spear and Charles Huey Addams in Westfield, NJ

1929

• Graduates from Westfield Senior High School

• Attends Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

1930

• Attends University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1931

• Attends Grand Central School of Art, New York City

1932

• Sells his first spot sketch to The New Yorker magazine

1933

• Sells his first drawing to The New Yorker magazine

1940

• Illustrates But Who Wakes the Bugler? by Peter DeVries for Houghton Mifflin Company

1942

• Publishes his first anthology of drawings Drawn and Quartered with Random House, Inc.

1947

• Publishes his second anthology of drawings Addams and Evil with Random House, Inc.

1950

• Illustrates Afternoon in the Attic by John Kobler for Dodd, Mead & Company

• Publishes his third anthology of drawings Monster Rally with S