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| Charles Addams |
On the home page of the browser on your U.S. version you can see some characters like Morticia, Gomez, Cousin Itt or Uncle Fester, interspersed among the letters of the company logo, which appear in black and white.
Google, which tends to change its logo to mark the anniversary like this, it offers click on its name several pages with information about the author biography and pictures, as well as a link to his foundation Tee and Charles Adams Foundation.
Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams was born in New Jersey (USA) on January 7, 1912, from an early age his father encouraged him to draw and throughout his life made more than 1,300 comics.
His talent as an artist led him to enter at age 21 in the team of drafters of the prestigious magazine The New Yorker, where he joined the staff full time in 1940 and continued to draw until he died in 1988 because of a heart attack.
Addams was known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters and as the father of the family more gloomy, yet beloved, which debuted in the art scene with his first story in 1938.
It is this grim clan inspired a television series was a hit in the 60's and later modernized, two cartoon series and three films and a Broadway musical.
The series "The Addams Family", who made drawings of flesh and blood characters in 1964 and projected for two years at ABC, part of the history of U.S. television, and their particular line , which had the characteristic clicks of fingers with which they set the pace.
In the 90's movie "The Addams Family" (1991) starring Anjelica Huston in the role of Morticia and Raul Julia in Gomez, the head of household, updated interest in the series, which was a sequel in 1993.
In 2010, Addams came to Broadway in a musical that has been running until Dec. 31 and has counted among its cast with actress Brooke Shields as Roger Rees as Morticia and Gomez.
Google began introducing the "doodles", custom logos that commemorate anniversaries to celebrate Halloween or dates as the Olympics, but have become more sophisticated to include some interactive, as it was designed to honor the pacman "Pac-Man" or animations like the one created to mark the 70th anniversary of John Lennon.
