Sunday, October 30, 2022

Addams Family and Others (Night Crawlers, 1975)


Charles Addams. Nightcrawlers (1957) A re-read. I enjoy Addams’s cartoons. They work so well because they show the logical consequences of whatever assumption has created the scene he depicts. Such as a pedestrian noticing a broom leaning against a parking meter. Or four oars protruding from four holes in the hull of a yacht. Or one witch to another, We’re out of dwarf’s hair, dearie. Can we substitute? Or the scenes on the book’s covers. ****


 

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A Poker Hand's A Clue (Eric Wright, The Last Hand, 2001)

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