COMIC ARTIST

Charles Addams

1912 - 1988

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Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Addams has received more than 2,517,448 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Charles Addams is the 44th most popular comic artist (up from 57th in 2019), the 2,426th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,255th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Charles Addams ranks 44 out of 226. Before him are Will Eisner, Philippe Honoré, Caran d'Ache, Shotaro Ishinomori, Guillermo Mordillo, and Gosho Aoyama. After him are Bill Finger, Monkey Punch, Masashi Kishimoto, Riyoko Ikeda, Frank Miller, and Naoko Takeuchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Charles Addams ranks 108. Before him are Yuen Siu-tien, Fritz Fischer, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Edmond Jabès, Hasan Salama, and Perry Como. After him are Kim Sung-gan, Isidro Lángara, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Yaroslav Stetsko, Barbara W. Tuchman, and Kaneto Shindo. Among people deceased in 1988, Charles Addams ranks 70. Before him are Henry Murray, Branko Zebec, Takeo Miki, Anna Mahler, Piero Taruffi, and Viktors Arājs. After him are Andrija Artuković, Edgar Faure, Ilona Elek, Raymond Dart, Mikha'il Na'ima, and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Addams ranks 2,426 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Jon Favreau (1966), Joan Bennett (1910), Bud Powell (1924), Frank Lucas (1930), and Tony Sirico (1942). After him are Mandy Patinkin (1952), Lana Del Rey (1985), Berenice Abbott (1898), John Hancock (1737), Kirsten Dunst (1982), and Nile Rodgers (1952).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Charles Addams ranks 11. Before him are Jack Kirby (1917), Bob Kane (1915), Steve Ditko (1927), Don Rosa (1951), Winsor McCay (1867), and Will Eisner (1917). After him are Bill Finger (1914), Frank Miller (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jerry Siegel (1914), E. C. Segar (1894), and Robert Crumb (1943).

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