You may have saw today that Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip
Dilbert, passed away from prostate cancer today at the age of 68.
Dilbert had been kicked out of syndication due to Adams' bigoted rhetoric back in 2023 but was still creating
Dilbert as a webcomic. Despite how terrible of a person Adams turned out to be, we celebrate comic strips here and you can't deny that
Dilbert was a fairly huge phenomenon back in the mid- to late 1990s. Besides the treasury collections of the comic, there were motivational books, self-help books, generic business books, plus a TV series that ran on UPN from January 1999 until June 2000.
The comic strip debuted on April 16, 1989 and originally focused on Dilbert and Dogbert. Dilbert was an engineer creating inventions and seemingly wanting to take over the world. The comic soon changed focus to Dilbert at work in an office building and the comic satirized workplaces, technology, and corporate culture which made people take notice turning Dilbert into one of the most popular strips in the country, especially after Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side came to an end.
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| Dilbert, April 16, 1989 |
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| Dilbert, December 19, 2010 |
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Speaking of corporate culture, 1960s corporate culture was wild, man! You can't do this nowadays, unless you're Elon Musk.
Brutus is shooting beans out of a straw in case you were wondering what weapon he had.
So, Gladys is
dieting for the new year and Brutus is going to grow some hair back. Look, I'm all for bettering yourself when a new year comes around, but why is it always something physical people choose? You should work on what's inside first.
