TITLE The Bastich By Hart
PANEL 1 (BASTICH holds up a hamburger at a Carl's Jr. fast food restaurant. In reverse on the window can be seen the star logo and slogan.) WINDOW SIGN: If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face.
PANEL 2 (The hamburger disintegrates and slips through BASTICH's fingers onto the table.) SFX: SLORP!
PANEL 3 (BASTICH faces the reader, hands still up and covered in sauce.) Only in America could food that disintegrates be considered a good selling point.
CREDITS Bastich (c) 1996 Joshua Adam Hart
Commentary
This was a quick strip poking fun at the then-current Carl's Jr. ad campaign boasting "If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face."
Process Note: The third panel of this strip was a web-only addition that I pasted together from the first two panels and a new face drawn with the Photoshop line tool. The print version was just two panels (also heavily copy/pasted) and had a hand-scrawled thought bubble of Bastich thinking "MUST BE A SLOW COMEDY WEEK" (which I'm not 100% sure I added myself). I must have been disappointed with how this turned out, so I added the third panel and new punchline when I scanned it all in for the web.