Most of us know The Addams Family as a black-and-white sitcom that ran for two seasons in the mid-60′s. A younger generation might be more familiar with the early-90′s movies. The family took on cartoon form in both the 70′s and 90′s. And this year the Addams clan even became a Broadway musical.

Before all of that though, the Addams Family was a single panel cartoon. The brainchild of Charles Addams, the comic was first published in The New Yorker in 1938.

But yet another incarnation is on the horizon. A 3D stop-motion animated version, to be directed by Tim Burton. This no doubt comes as great news to his fans, who look forward to being treated to another dose of typically twisted and macabre Burton style. But for everyone else, well… I can hear the collected groan of “Here we go again.”

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