After taking her to P.J. Clarkes and making her laugh, Addams told Blake about his cartoon becoming a show. “… He had no name for the little girl,” Blake continued. “I said, ‘Wednesday ...

The Addams Family began in 1938 as a series of wry cartoon panels from ... as a TV spinoff for Netflix called “Wednesday,” featuring the original goth girl herself, Wednesday Addams.

And Burton, an often magical storyteller attracted to off-kilter material, seemed as if he might be a good match for Charles Addams’s macabre cartoon ... with Wednesday’s mean-girl punch ...

The new Addams Family TV series, “Wednesday,” has at least one obvious New Jersey link: Charles Addams, the Westfield creator of the macabre cartoon brood that inspired the shows and movies.

For Jenna Ortega, getting in touch with Wednesday's lead meant staying true to her character's artistic roots. Speaking with ...

“[Burton] wanted the silhouette to look more like the Charles Addams cartoons ... s version of Wednesday Addams special. “We’ve never seen her as a teenage girl,” Ortega told Entertainment ...

Wednesday is a new take on The Addams Family, the classic cartoon strip created by Charles Addams.The Netflix series focuses on the titular character played by Jenna Ortega with her family only ...