Beer and Violence.

What I like about this strip is how the humor comes from both a character trait (Nick's borderline alcoholism) and a sight gag. It's a delicate balance, and even today, professional comic strips have a hard time being consistent AND funny day after day. (Charles Schulz once said "A cartoonist is someone who must draw the same thing day after day after day without repeating himself.") But a strip like this epitomizes everything I was going for at the time: fun to read and fun to look at. It's also a good example of why I ended up in advertising--telling a verbal and visual story in as little time as possible. Basically, that's a commercial.