On The Fastrack
About On The Fastrack
On the Fastrack chronicles the comic misadventures at Fastrack Inc., a wry mirror of the contemporary work scene. Ruthless boss Rose Trellis runs Fastrack, Inc. and thrives in an atmosphere of corporate political intrigue and back-stabbing. Readers can also follow the life of Fastrack worker Wendy Rommel and her husband, Art Welding, as they run the non-stop modern business gauntlet and juggle their home life with their children, Patina and Rusty.
The strip is sprinkled with office romance, computer technology mayhem and lovesick moat monsters!
On the Fastrack has been distributed by King Features Syndicate since 1984 and now appears in some 75 newspapers nationwide.
Meet the Creator
Bill Holbrook
Bill Holbrook grew up in the Space Age atmosphere of Huntsville, Alabama, in the 1960s. Upon graduating from Auburn University in 1980, he was hired by The Atlanta Constitution as an editorial staff artist. After several attempts at syndication, his office strip “On the Fastrack” was picked up by King Features and debuted in 150 […]
Characters
Art Welding
Art’s major accomplishments in life are in winning the heart of his wife Wendy and being a caring father to Rusty and Patina. Other than that, he toils contentedly in the Fastrac...
Chelonia and Bud Spore
Chelonia and Bud run the computer network of the company. Chelonia is the daughter of Ms. Trellis, and their baby Cookie takes after her grandmother in every way except that she is too...
Dethany Dendrobia
Dethany is Personal Assistant to Wendy Welding. A 27-year-old with an unconventional fashion sense, she feels life is a fleeting, transitory stage which is too short to waste on work t...
Patina
In this online universe, they’ve battled The Bug (formerly known as Y2K), developed Santa’s North Pole computer security system and cleaned up after their pet, Meg the Cybe...
Rose Trellis
Ms. Trellis is the cheerfully ruthless CEO of Fastrack, Inc., ruling the company with an iron hand, an unbending will and the ever-present threat of sending the staff on yet another &#...
Rusty
The children of Wendy and Art inhabit a virtual world that their parents are only dimly aware of.
The Moat Monster
Somewhere in the toxic chemical waste of the Fastrack, Inc. dump site, an organism spontaneously developed that grew to become the company’s Chief of Security, with the ability t...
Wendy Welding
Wendy is the embattled yet optimistic executive assistant of Fastrack, Inc.’s CEO. In this position, she finds herself at the center of the company’s maelstrom of weirdness...
