The New Yorker - January 17, 1970 Cover art by Charles Addams

The New Yorker COVERS - 1970s! I've chosen 20 covers out of 520 for the ten years of the 1970s. Watch for them for many days. . .perhaps two weeks.

The New Yorker has long been hailed as the most influential magazine in the world.
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About the artist Charles Addams:
AND YES, he created that dark family we knew so well from the 1960s!

Charles Addams, in full Charles Samuel Addams, (born January 7, 1912, Westfield, New Jersey, U.S.—died September 29, 1988, New York City, New York), cartoonist whose drawings, known mostly through The New Yorker magazine, became famous in the United States as examples of macabre humour.

Addams attended various schools from 1929 to 1932; thereafter, aside from a brief period as a commercial artist, he was a free-lance cartoonist, selling his first work to The New Yorker in 1933. His cartoons began to attract considerable popular attention about 1940. Addams became famous for his ironic depictions of morbid or inexplicable behaviour by sinister-looking individuals. His best-known cartoons centred on a family of ghouls whose activities travestied those of a conventional family; for example, they prepare to pour boiling oil from the rooftop on a group of Christmas carolers. Addams’s ghoulish characters served as the basis of “The Addams Family,” a popular television series in the mid-1960s.

Source: Britannica