…and speaking of Carl Rose, this next cartoon by James Thurber has an interesting history…New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin explains in this Carl Rose Inkspill bio: In 1932, Rose submitted a drawing captioned, “Touche!” of two fencers, one of whom has just cut off the head of the...
Addams Family Values, the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed movie retains the “kid-friendly haunted house” aesthetic of the 1960s TV show while drawing mildly subversive dark wit from a sharp screenplay full of fish-out-of-