While trying to come up with a 4th of July cartoon I was tossing around how to fold the race formerly known as the Firscracker 400 and the problem of gas prices. I was mentioning this to Sandra over the dinner table, when she came up with the excellent gag above.

This is a Ken Culotta gag. Ken wrote this and, as usual, it is brilliant. We’ve been working together since being in high school. Recently, living in two different parts of the state, work and family issues, we have worked together considerably less unfortunately. We got together Saturday for a short while and came up with some material. Above is one of those bits of material.