Go, Read: NYT On Charles Addams Bio
A bit more critical than the average New York Times book feature, this piece on Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life provides a pretty fair survey about what you can expect in the book and takes the writer to task for accepting an Addams persona "that sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers." As a bonus, you can find one of the cartoonist's more famous gags, not only funny but a pretty good one for showing how Addams told jokes through accretion of detail.
