Through June 8th, 2010, the Museum of the City of New York offers an opportunity to enjoy views of New York from an artist whose household name is not usually associated with urban representation. “Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams’s quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape.” In an effort to encourage Omnibus readers (omnivorous consumers of city imagery that you are) to check it out, we asked another cartoonist, Amy Hwang, to review the show, and to do so in the medium that made Addams famous: the cartoon. -C.S.

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