The man who originally created the Addams Family would have been 100 had he not died in 1988.
Charles Addams was a cartoonist at the New Yorker and started drawing the characters humorous macabre in 1938.
This character eventually took on the name of the author and have been in a TV series, an animated series, two feature films and a Broadway musical made.
The characters as they appear today Addams comic panels' Google Doodle.