I just read My Crowd (1970), a collection of cartoons by Charles Addams. It’s the first time I’ve read one of his books and I found a lot of it hilarious. It reminds me very much of The Far Side…both share a similar sense of the absurd.

I would definitely like to read more of his work and plan to track down another book. My Crowd is a curated collection from his first six books and the copyright page mentions that it contains 189 drawings, 185 of which originally appeared in the pages of The New Yorker between 1937 and 1969.

These cartoons are sometimes macabre, sometimes absurd, sometimes excellent observations, and almost always very funny.