Mike Smith has been a professional cartoonist for more than 30 years. Smith works for the Las Vegas Sun, which first started running his work while he was still a senior in college. In addition to drawing a daily cartoon five days a week for the Sun, Smith also draws YouToon, a cartoon caption contest for USA Today. He is the author of Nuts for Racing, a collection of his cartoons on NASCAR racing. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post and The New York Times.