Dilbert - C or D?

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"Clott Adams"!

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lol its finally happening

https://news.yahoo.com/dilbert-cartoon-cut-cleveland-newspaper-021200896.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fprx0wTagAUdw2e?format=jpg&name=medium

Had missed this whole thing!

xp In its editorial, the Plain Dealer made a case for its First Amendment rights.

Lol, no it didn’t (that would be silly)… the editor said they don’t want to platform a racist. It’s a good editorial (and links to an interesting recent one by the same editor: “%&$#?@! that Beetle Bailey for forcing me to write a column about comics”).

those editorials are both great!

LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-02-25/los-angeles-times-ceases-publication-of-dilbert

Chicago Tribune and Washington Post, too.

I'm a little shocked that it was still being carried in any of these papers tbh

How will we live without its wit and wisdom?

Dilbert Comic for February 23: https://t.co/o7nL9Tj07M

— Dilbert (@Dilbert_Daily) February 23, 2023

From 1997
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-20-ls-55624-story.html

“ ‘Dilbert’ is just a way to make people laugh so they will transfer their money to me,” says Adams, who has become rich beyond hapless Dilbert’s wildest dreams. “I’m in the business of writing funny little things that fill up space in the newspaper and, when I get away with it, writing funny little books that people will buy.”

Solomon, who lives half an hour away from Adams in Northern California, says, “Scott Adams, the purported advocate for human values in the face of a corporate juggernaut, is a role model for amoral self-advancement.”

In his book--inspired by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart’s 1971 anti-Disney tract, “How to Read Donald Duck"--Solomon cites Adams’ dealings with the kind of multibillion-dollar firms, such as Xerox and Intel, that he lampoons in his strips.

“What would be wrong with working for a company?” responds Adams. “Isn’t that like criticizing me for breathing air?”

I hope he dies broke and in obscurity.

good find, ET

god, this guy is such a weirdo

very odd behavior in the ‘97 article referring to himself as a demagogue

the only other person i've ever heard do that out of nowhere is billy corgan

lol

the corgan/adams axis of demagoguery

Both bald weirdos who manage to alienate just about everyone.

Twenty+ years ago he tried selling the "nutririonally complete" Dilburrito, the most perfect food ever devised. He thought that once you eat it, your body would recognize that it was perfect and from then on you would crave only the Dilburrito.

this is the man who almost named a character dildog

That’s actually kinda funny though

The product failed to catch on in the market, leading Adams "several years and several million dollars later" to sell off his intellectual property and exit the business. Adams himself noted, "[t]he mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail."[5] The New York Times noted the burrito "could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste."[6]

He had a good thing going too, if you had to think of a career where you made a ton of money for very little work and were kind of a household name but also able to fly under the radar, well he had it. Every time he did something weird there’s a lot of people going “holy shit I had no clue he was like that” but I think they probably just forgot about the previous things because nobody’s talked about Dilbert for decades. Lo and behold he managed to find the perfect linguistic kill shot for his own career.

I mean like he's been saying shit like this for a while

I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience. That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 29, 2020

also remember him getting really aggressive about how there were no black characters in Dilbert, which he defended by saying he was so not racist that he could not possibly make fun of a black character. just recently he put a black character in Dilbert who existed only to say "I identify as white". given this was a weekday strip which therefore did not print in color, the character actually *was* white in the newspaper, because Scott Adams is a fucking idiot who is terrible at his job. admittedly it did make the joke work though.

Omg i somehow saw that and thought it was an odd ironic “joke” about some white millenial needing to “identify” as white.

"transmutes the reader's anger at stupid bosses from revolutionary impulse into a perfunctory laugh" - Remember the days when "Why doesn't Dilbert turn to the reader and call for a communist revolution?" was considered a genuine question that people wrote entire books about? pic.twitter.com/s2CQve5Jlu

— Werewolf2000ad (@Werewolf2000ad) February 26, 2023

I saw an interesting twitter thread (from a locked account, so I can't link to it) arguing that this interpretation of Dilbert (that it's basically leftist, but doesn't go far enough, stops at blowing off steam at stupid bosses rather than calling for revolution) is wrong and that Dilbert was implicitly about how the staid, weak bureaucracy prevents nietzschean overmen like Adams from achieving their full potential and rightfully dominating the world, rather than being anti-hierarchy, and that this is true of a lot 90s office drone comedy (Fight Club making the fascist subtext explicit)

I've lost three careers to direct racism so far. Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell, and cartooning.

All three were perpetrated by White people for their own gain.

No Black person has ever discriminated against me. That's partly why I identified as Black for several years.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 27, 2023

see and people think this guy isn't funny anymore

I mean his bio does say 'wrong about everything'

xp was just coming here to post this!

He should have mentioned both marriages!

I think he believes "demagogue" means "I just throw ideas at the wall, see what sticks, and then pretend I didn't say the other shit or tell people I used to be black"

I’m not sure it’s ideas he’s throwing at the wall atm

lol

My publisher for non-Dilbert books has canceled my upcoming book and the entire backlist. Still no disagreement about my point of view. My book agent canceled me too.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 27, 2023

idk sounds like maybe they do disagree with you

the most cancelled man

the garrison-adams feud has exploded back into life

garrison winning bcz he can actually draw

Watching his meltdown at a distance is quite enjoyable.

Just saw this thread bumped. Dilbert's a pretty funny comic! I wonder if the creator is cool too.

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even ben garrison is making fun of scott adams now pic.twitter.com/paPbqqdU4f

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) February 27, 2023

garrison probably ecstatic that adams gave him an excuse to draw angry black people

the thing he loves best to draw is the shape of scott adams' head

CLOTT adams call him by his name

he has been very careful not to draw the angry black people as racist caricatures, but they are still kind of racist caricatures.

in any case have to say the racist caricatures of angry black people are otm re:dilbert guy

clott adams probably salty that The Coneheads had already been done

The Highland shooting and every Fentanyl overdose death among the young are teaching us the same lesson, and we refuse to learn it. It's difficult, but I'm qualified to give you this lesson (unfortunately).

This won't be easy to read.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 6, 2022

When a young male (let's say 14 to 19) is a danger to himself and others, society gives the supporting family two options:

1. Watch people die.
2. Kill your own son.

Those are your only options. I chose #1 and watched my stepson die. I was relieved he took no one else with him.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 6, 2022

these are old -- and possibly were posted upthread -- but this is the level of cognition we are dealing with here. scott adams is crazy.

context to the above is that he was in the process of getting (even more) divorced at the time. which obviously doesn't reflect any better on him.

i'm familiar with regular divorce, but what's "more" divorced?!

won't go so far as to say that he planned it, but i'll bet this is the most fulfilled he's been in years

he's presumably set for life financially, i can't imagine that he actually enjoys drawing dilbert, and after years of crying about his victimhood -- 'if biden wins i'll probably be dead within six months' -- he now has something concrete to point to . . . despite it being entirely of his own doing