CARTOON of the DAY: Detroit 911

Crain's Detroit Business - March 18

Did somebody call 911 on behalf of financially beleaguered Detroit? Uh, yeah ... a long time ago ... but the first responders were parked outside the city limits until all the shouting in City Council was over (well, at least until the shouting subsided a bit). Let's keep our collective fingers crossed that the response was in time because a healthy Southeast Michigan depends on the recovery of the City of Detroit.
That's the Point!

Off the Drawing Board: For nearly two weeks, Jennette Smith, my editor at Crain's Detroit Business, and I worked on variations of EM editorial cartoons that played to the timeliness of both the Papal selection process and the naming of Detroit's Emergency Manager. Timing wasn't our ally, but I want to share of few of the roughs with you because, frankly, we were pretty happy with the concepts! (... and see if you can tell which one of the roughs below gave me a head start on the EM cartoon that appeared this week.)