Spot Cartoons

This is a collection of cartoons I did to illustrate a front page feature called The Box for the Flint Journal. The Box was a five column by two inch space near the footer of the front page that printed local and wire stories that were unusual or odd in content. I wanted try to give the art an edge to attract the reader to the story, and a whimsical cartoon allowed me the freedom to exaggerate an aspect of the story to accomplish that. In a reader survey at the time The Box was voted as the second most read feature of the paper. The art was done under a true deadline situation, in the newsroom literally an hour before going to press.