Racing Peanuts

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The latest thing in the AAUGH.com Reference Library isn’t a reading item. It’s a car; specifically, a limited edition 1/24 scale model of Tony Stewart’s Great Pumpkin-themed stock car, which he drove in the Sharpie 500 in August, 2002. It’s a combination of one thing I am heavily into – Peanuts, of course – with something I enjoy far more casually, auto racing.

This comes as a gift from someone far more into auto racing than I: my brother, J.J. Gertler, who drove in the local NASCAR races in Virginia for a few years. He and I actually cowrote some licensed NASCAR comics years ago, and recently he did some racing-related consultation for me on a new story I was writing.

What story was that? Well, let’s just say that the title is “Joe Stockcar”. You should see it soon…

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