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A. J. ANDERSON

As almost everyone knows, Addams has been drawing cartoons for The New Yorker for many years. This latest collection [Creature Comforts] represents sketches he has done for the magazine since 1976. It is no small praise to say that he is second to none as a master of the insidious effect. His nightmare vision leads him to construct designs of a ludicrous nature in which the qualities and employments of the persons depicted are incongruous or incompatible. What you respond to is what is intended—a subtle haunting mystery that slowly engulfs you, like washed-out figments of a dream. His creatures, all of which wear that patented Addams expression, are horrifyingly funny, and his images exquisitely witty.

A. J. Anderson, in a review of "Creature Comforts," in Library Journal, Vol. 107, No. 2, January 15, 1982, p. 178.

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