Not every cartoon by Charles Addams was first published in The New Yorker. Between perhaps 1955 and 1957, he published a weekly panel cartoon called Out of This World with the McClure Syndicate. An original from this feature came up for auction on Wednesday.
It is reasonable to assume that gags for Out of This World came from that group of his submissions to The New Yorker that were rejected by the magazine.
Whatever The New Yorker's opinion, Addams liked this one enough to include it in his 1957 collection Nightcrawlers.
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| Charles Addams Original art Out of This World, October 23, 1955, McClure Syndicate |
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| Detail of man walking his dog |
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| Detail of woman walking her pet |
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| Charles Addams Original art Out of This World, October 23, 1955, McClure Syndicate |
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| Charles Addams Millea Bros., Ltd., listing accessed November 16, 2022 |
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Note: For more on the weekly syndicated panel strip Out of This World by Charles Addams, check out this Ink Spill post from last year.
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