Bornfamous

Born on Jan. 7, 1912: Cartoonist Charles Addams

In 1937, Addams began using a couple of regular characters — a deathly-pale woman dressed all in black, and her misshapen butler, who looked like he’d been assembled from odd-size parts. Later on, the woman’s deranged husband and their two horrible children began appearing with her, as well as a couple of less easily categorized family members and an incidental character or two. They appeared in dozens of cartoons, over a period of dozens of years. In 1964, they were turned into a TV sitcom, and are now known as The Addams Family.