Between my turning in a draft for last week’s Previously and the article’s running, Scott Adam’s fall from grace escalated, with Andrews McMeel Syndication dropping the creator entirely. Subsequently came the announcement that the vacated position formerly occupied by Dilbert at the Washington Post would be filled instead by Heart of the City, the strip created…
Previously on Comics: Dils and Don’ts
Good morning! Next week is Emerald City Comic Con, and yours truly is looking forward to once again being on the ground to take it in. In the meantime, let’s talk about the past week’s news! Firstly, after the news of layoffs once again hitting the company hard just before last year’s SDCC, Oni-Lion Forge…
Previously on Comics: On Dilbert and Coincidences
Good morning! We’re nearly to the end of September, can you believe it? Pretty soon it’s spooky season.
Dear Scott Adams, Rhetoric is Not Reliable Camouflage
Well, Dilbert Man has struck again. He’s a cartoonist, he’s got reach, he’s a silly and unpleasant misogynist. He’s bad. We’d have said something sooner, but as he himself boasts women hardly pay attention to him — your honours, we did not know. Scott Adams is the man behind long-running and (sub-ironically?) mainstreamed cartoon strip Dilbert….
