The Addams Family: An Evilution by H. Kevin Miserocchi offers another explanation. It suggests Wednesday’s name wasn’t decided upon until Addams’ drawings were adapted into a TV show in 1964.

New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams began drawing his gloomy illustrations ... Jenna Ortega is Wednesday, playing Wednesday Addams, the eternally glum Addams Family daughter in a new Netflix ...

Two years after he began drawing his namesake family ... happen to be morbid goths. The first Addams family member introduced on the premiere episode, Wednesday politely answers the door.

Loring “passed away on Saturday surrounded by her family,” longtime ... the person who DEFINED Wednesday Addams at a time when she was just a frowning newspaper drawing.” ...

Principal Weems even has the ability to shapeshift, and Wednesday’s new buddy Xavier can bring drawings to life. This addition of superpowers takes the Addams family to a whole new frontier ...

Summon most any image of the iconic Addams Family daughter ... Award in February — Wednesday is riding a new wave of cultural relevance. “I ran into a former art professor of mine this ...

Netflix has slotted a Thanksgiving week premiere for Wednesday, Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series. The series, starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, debuts Wednesday, November ...