![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Dennis DrabelleĬopyright 2006, The Washington Post. First published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. When it came to marital mayhem, Chas Addams could swing either way. Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One is a book by Charles Addams. The book includes droves of cartoons in which it's the wife, not the husband, who's involved in spousicide. In another cartoon, a man goes up to a train-station ticket booth and, while his wife stands obliviously by, asks for "a round-trip and a one-way to Ausable Chasm." Not to worry, though. you wouldn't dare." Perhaps Echo Gorge goes by more than one name. The caption reads, in ever-diminishing letters, "You wouldn't dare. ![]() ![]() Among the drawings - many of them previously unpublished - collected in Happily Ever After (Simon & Schuster, $20) are such anti-Valentines as a middle-aged man standing near the edge of Echo Gorge, into which a woman's hat and purse are disappearing after their owner. I speak of Charles (Chas) Addams, creator of the Addams Family, longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, and possessor of an inexhaustibly mordant sense of humor. What kind of man would collect medieval armor? Perhaps one who wanted to be insulated from his own creations - men, women and children often on the verge of dispatching one another. ![]()
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