Dilbert

Dilbert

"Announcement of changes in company password

policy." From left: the Pointy-Haired Boss, Dilbert,

Alice, and Wally (Pub. September 10, 2005)

Author(s) Scott Adams

Website http://www.dilbert.com/

Launch date April 16, 1989[1]

Syndicate(s) United Feature Syndicate

(1989–2011)

Universal Uclick (June 2011–)

Publisher(s) Andrews McMeel Publishing

Genre(s) Humor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by

Scott Adams. First published on April 16, 1989[2] Dilbertis known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineerDilbert as the title character. The strip has spawnedseveral books, an animated television series, a videogame, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandiseitems. Adams has also received the National CartoonistSociety Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic StripAward in 1997 for his work on the strip. Dilbert appearsin 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25

languages.[3]

1 Themes1.1 Elbonia

2 Characters3 Popular culture

3.1 Criticism and parody3.2 Language3.3 Management

4 Awards5 Media

5.1 Comic strip compilations5.2 Business books5.3 Other books5.4 Merchandise5.5 Animated series5.6 New animation

6 "Drunken lemurs" case7 Dilbert.com's interactive cartoons8 See also9 References10 External links

The comic strip originally revolved around Dilbert and his "pet" dog Dogbert in their home. Many plotsrevolved around Dilbert's engineer nature or his bizarre inventions. Also prominent were plots based onDogbert's megalomaniacal ambitions. Later, the location of most of the action moved to Dilbert's workplace,and the strip started to satirize technology, workplace, and company issues. The comic strip's popularsuccess is attributable to its workplace setting and themes, which are familiar to a large and appreciativeaudience; Adams said that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office was "when the strip really

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started to take off."[4] The workplace location is Silicon Valley.[5]

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politicsthat stand in the way of productivity, where employees' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work ispraised. Much of the humor emerges as the audience sees the characters making obviously ridiculousdecisions that are natural reactions to mismanagement.

Themes explored include:

Engineers' personal traitsIdiosyncrasy of styleHopelessness in dating (and general lack of social skills)Attraction to tools and technological products

Business ethicsEsotericismIncompetent and sadistic management

Scheduling and budgeting without reference to realityFailure to reward success or penalize lazinessPenalizing employees for failures caused by bad managementMicromanagementFailure to improve others' morale, lowering it insteadFailure to communicate objectivesHandling of projects doomed to failure or cancellationSadistic HR policies with evil rationale

Corporate bureaucracyISO auditsBudgeting, accounting, payroll and financial advisorsStupidity of the general public

Susceptibility to advertisingSusceptibility to peer pressureSusceptibility to flatteryGullibility in the face of obvious scams

Fourth World countries and outsourcing (Elbonia)DilapidationBizarre cultural habitsLack of understanding of capitalism

Elbonia

The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country in Dilbert. Elbonia is supposedly located somewhere in the

former Soviet bloc: a strip dated April 2, 1990 refers to the "Tiny East European country of Elbonia."[6] It is

an extremely poor, "fourth-world" country that has abandoned Communism.[7] Most of the nation is coveredwith waist-deep mud, which the residents use to build houses. The fictional Elbonia has some visual andthematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li'l Abner,where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen inwaist-deep snow. Dogbert has been the ruler of Elbonia both in the strip and on the short-lived TV show.

The national bird of Elbonia is the Frisbee.[8] There are "mud weasels" living in the mud that can bite

people.[9] The country is supposedly capitalist, shares a border with a totalitarian regime, North Elbonia "aparody of North Korea and Iran," and is also shown to share a border with a country called "Kneebonia"with which relations are bad.


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Main article: List of Dilbert characters

See also: List of minor characters in Dilbert

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used inmany business magazines and publications (he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune).

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal’s La Presse,The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, theIndianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the BrisbaneCourier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among otherpublications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to theway in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

Criticism and parody

Media analyst Norman Solomon and cartoonist Tom Tomorrow claim[10] that while Adams' caricatures ofcorporate culture seem to project empathy for white-collar workers, the satire ultimately plays into the handsof upper corporate management itself. Solomon describes the characters of Dilbert, none of whom occupiesa position higher than middle management, as dysfunctional time-wasters whose inefficiencies detract fromcorporate values like 'productivity' and 'growth', a very favorable outlook for managers. Though Dilbert andhis office-mates often find themselves baffled or victimized by the whims of managerial behavior, theynever seem to question it openly. Solomon cites the Xerox corporation's use of Dilbert strips and charactersin internally distributed 'inspirational' pamphlets:

"Xerox management had recognized what more gullible Dilbert readers did not: Dilbert is anoffbeat sugary substance that helps the corporate medicine go down. The Dilbert phenomenonaccepts—and perversely eggs on—many negative aspects of corporate existence asunchangeable facets of human nature...As Xerox managers grasped, Dilbert speaks to somevery real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better workingconditions."

Adams responded in the February 2, 1998[11] strip and in his book The Joy of Work, simply by restatingSolomon's argument, apparently suggesting that it was absurd and required no rebuttal.

In 1997, Tom Vanderbilt wrote in a similar vein in The Baffler magazine:

"Labor unions haven't adopted Dilbert characters as insignia. But corporations in droves haverushed to link themselves with Dilbert. Why? Dilbert mirrors the mass media's crocodile tearsfor working people—and echoes the ambient noises from Wall Street."

Bill Griffith, in his daily strip Zippy the Pinhead, used his strip as a forum to criticize Adams' artwork as

simplistic.[citation needed] Adams responded on May 18, 1998,[12] with a comic strip called Pippy theZiphead, "cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke...[and] it's onthe reader." Dilbert notes that the strip is "nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things"and Dogbert responds that he is "maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will

enjoy."[13] In September of the same year, Griffith mocked Adams by mimicking his Pippy the Zipheadcreation with a strip showing stiff, Dilbert-like creations in an office setting and one of the characters

saying, "I sense a joke was delivered."[14]


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In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both

Dilbert[15] and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen. This soonbecame a regular feature in the Savage Dragon comic book, titled The Savage Dragonbert and Hitler'sBrainbert ("Hitler's Brainbert" being both a loose parody of Dogbert as well as the Savage Dragon villainidentified as Adolf Hitler's disembodied, superpowered brain). The strip began as a specific parody of thecomic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing an emulation of

Adams' cartooning style.[15]

In the Family Guy episode "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington", Peter comments that the business world isfunny. The scene then cuts away to a parody of Dilbert, after which Peter remarks, "Well, sometimes thebusiness world is funny."

Dilbert has occasionally been criticized for alleged "insensitivity" and off-color jokes, as documented byAdams in The Joy of Work. One of the most widely-attacked strips involved the Pointy-Haired Boss beingsaved in an airplane crash due to nuns being onboard ("You were saved by prayer?" "No, padding. Theydon't do a lot of aerobics at the nunnery."). The comic was published the same week as the death of MotherTeresa, leading to a huge backlash. His depiction of Elbonia has also drawn criticism from a variety ofcorners.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged politicalcontent of his work, although in the case of one such strip (where oil drilling kills a unicorn) he excuseshimself by saying "I just thought the image was funny." In particular, a series of strips in which Dogbertworked as a talk radio host drew criticism from conservatives for his supposed attack on Rush Limbaugh(which Adams denied in Seven Years of Highly Defective People). Earlier strips did engage in a degree oflow-key political satire (for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President), but sincethe early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

Language

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own officeenvironments, include “Induhvidual.” This term is based on the American English slang expression “duh!”The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in theDNRC (Dogbert's New Ruling Class). Its coining is explained in Dilbert Newsletter #6.

The strip has also popularized the usage of the terms “cow-orker” and PHB. The word “frooglepoopillion” isoccasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at thecompany where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money thatno word existed to describe the number.

Some fans have used “Dilbertian” or “Dilbertesque” to analogize situations in real life to those in the comicstrip.

The lamentation "You had ones? Lucky you, all we had were zeros!", commonly used in the IT industry,

also originated in a Dilbert comic strip. This dates from a strip from September 1992,[16] in which Dilbertresponds by saying "You had zeros? We had to use the letter 'O'".

Management

In 1997, Scott Adams masqueraded as a management consultant to Logitech executives (as Ray Mebert),with the cooperation of the company’s vice-chairman. He acted in much the way he portrays managementconsultants in the comic strip, with an arrogant manner and bizarre suggestions, such as comparing missionstatements to broccoli soup. He convinced the executives to replace their existing mission statement for theirNew Ventures Group, “to provide Logitech with profitable growth and related new business areas,” with “to


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scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission-inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the

findings.”[17][18][19]

To demonstrate what can be achieved with the most mundane objects if planned correctly and imaginatively,Adams has worked with companies to develop “dream” products for Dilbert and company. In 2001, hecollaborated with design company IDEO to come up with the “perfect cubicle”, a fitting creation since manyof the Dilbert strips make fun of the standard cubicle desk and the environment it creates. The result was

both whimsical and practical.[20][21]

This project was followed in 2004 with designs for Dilbert’s Ultimate House (http://web.archive.org/web/20041001095014/www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/duh/index.html) (abbreviated as DUH). An energy-efficient building was the result, designed to prevent many of the little problems that seem to creep into anormal building. For instance, to save time spent buying and decorating a Christmas tree every year, thehouse has a large (yet unapparent) closet adjacent to the living room where the tree can be stored from yearto year.

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip hasreceived a variety of other awards. Adams was named best international comic strip artist of 1995 in theAdamson Awards given by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art.

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prizeas best international comic strip for 1998. In the Squiddy Awards, Dilbert was named the best daily strip of1996 and 1997, and the best comic strip of 1998 and 2000. The strip also won the Zombie Award as the bestcomics strip of 1996 and 1997, and the 1997 Good Taste Award as the best strip of 1996.

Comic strip compilations

Books in bold indicate special compilations or original strips.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons — April 16, 1989 (first strip) to October 21,1989

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Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies2.Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless3.Shave the Whale — October 22, 1989 to August 4, 19904.Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! — August 5, 1990 to May 18, 19915.It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone — May 19, 1991 to December 13, 19926.Still Pumped from Using the Mouse — December 14, 1992 to September 27, 19937.Fugitive From the Cubicle Police — September 28, 1993 to February 4, 19958.Casual Day Has Gone Too Far — February 5, 1995 to November 19, 19959.Seven Years of Highly Defective People — 1997; strips from 1989 to 1995, with handwritten notes byScott Adams

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I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot — November 20, 1995 to August 31, 199611.Journey to Cubeville — September 1, 1996 to January 18, 199812.Don't Step in the Leadership — January 12, 1998 to October 18, 199813.Dilbert Gives You the Business — Collection of favorites before 1999.14.Random Acts of Management — October 19, 1998 to July 25, 199915.


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A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 — 2000; color version of all Sunday strips from 1995 to1999

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Excuse Me While I Wag — July 26, 1999 to April 30, 200017.When Did Ignorance Become A Point Of View? — May 1, 2000 to February 4, 200118.Another Day In Cubicle Paradise — February 5, 2001 to November 11, 200119.What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker — A compilation of stripsfeaturing Dilbert's coworkers

20.

When Body Language Goes Bad — November 12, 2001 to August 18, 200221.Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review — August 19, 2002 to May25, 2003

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Don't Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — May 26, 2003 to February 29, 200423.It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It — 2004; strips from 1997 to 2004, with more of Adams'handwritten notes

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The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head — March 1, 2004 to December 5, 200425.Thriving on Vague Objectives — December 6, 2004 to September 11, 200526.What Would Wally Do? — 2006; strips focused on Wally.27.Try Rebooting Yourself — September 12, 2005 to June 18, 200628.Positive Attitude — June 19, 2006 to March 25, 200729.Cubes and Punishment — 2007; a collection of comic strips on workplace cruelty.30.This is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value — March 26, 2007 to January 5, 200831.Freedom's Just Another Word for People Finding Out You're Useless — January 6, 2008 to October12, 2008

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14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box — October 13, 2008 to July 25, 200933.Problem Identified: And You're Probably Not Part of the Solution — 201034.I'm Tempted to Stop Acting Randomly — July 26, 2009 to May 2, 201035.Your Accomplishments Are Suspiciously Hard to Verify — 2011 [1](http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/products/?isbn=1449401023)

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How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? — May 3, 2010 to February 12, 201137.Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side that's Right — February 13, 2011 to November 20, 201138.I Can't Remember If We're Cheap or Smart — 201239.

Business books

The Dilbert PrincipleDogbert's Top Secret Management HandbookThe Dilbert FutureThe Joy of WorkDilbert and the Way of the WeaselSlapped Together: The Dilbert Business Anthology (The Dilbert Principle, The Dilbert Future, andThe Joy of Work, published together in one book)

Other books

Telling It Like It Isn't — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-1324-6You Don't Need Experience If You've Got Attitude — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-2196-6Access Denied: Dilbert's Quest for Love in the Nineties — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-2191-5Conversations With Dogbert — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-2197-4Fugitives From The Cubicle Police. 1996. ISBN 0836221192.Work is a Contact Sport — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-2878-2The Boss: Nameless, Blameless and Shameless — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-3223-2The Dilbert Bunch — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-2879-0


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No You'd Better Watch Out — 1997Please Don't Feed The Egos — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-3224-0Random Acts of Catness — 1998; ISBN 0-8362-5277-2Dilbert Meeting Book Exceeding Tech Limits — 1998; ISBN 0-7683-2028-3Trapped In A Dilbert World – Book Of Days — 1998; ISBN 0-7683-2030-5Work—The Wally Way — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7480-6Alice in Blunderland — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7479-2All Dressed Down And Nowhere To Go — 2002; ISBN 0-7407-2931-4Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland — 2007; ISBN 0-7624-2781-7Dilbert Sudoku Comic Digest: 200 Puzzles Plus 50 Classic Dilbert Cartoons — 2008; ISBN0-7407-7250-3Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert — 2008; 576 pages, ≈6500 strips, and Scott Adams' notes from 1989to 2008.

Merchandise

Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of theCoast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game PresidentThe Dilberito, a vegetarian burrito with 100% Daily Value of 23 vitamins and mineralsThere was a line of Dilbert mints which had names along the lines of Manage-mints, Accomplish-mints, Perform-mints and Improve-mintsDilbert: the Board Game – 2006; by Hyperion Games; A Dilbert-branded board game that was namedone of Games magazine's Top 100 GamesDay-by-Day calendars featuring the comic strip are available every year.Dilbert: Escape From Cubeville was released in 2010 in the Dilbert store section of dilbert.com

Animated series

Main article: Dilbert (TV series)

Dilbert was adapted into a UPN animated television series, which ran for two seasons from January 25,1999, to July 25, 2000. The first season centered on the creation of a new product called the "Gruntmaster6000," including the idea process and testing by one Bob Bastard. The second season had no connectingstory arc; plots varied from Wally finding disciples ("The Shroud of Wally") to Dilbert being accused ofmass murder ("The Trial"). The second season two-episode finale included Dilbert getting pregnant with thechild of a cow, a hillbilly, Robot DNA, "several dozen engineers", an elderly billionaire, and an alien,eventually ending up in a custody battle with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the Judge. Featured voice actorsincluded Daniel Stern as Dilbert, Chris Elliott as Dogbert, and Kathy Griffin as Alice.

New animation

On April 7, 2008, dilbert.com presented its first Dilbert animation. The new Dilbert animations are animatedversions of original comic strips produced by RingTales and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios.The animation videos run for around 30 seconds each and are added every weekday. On December 10, 2009

the RingTales produced animations were made available as a calendar application for mobile devices.[22]

In October 2007, the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, notified its staff that the casino was closingand they were going to be laid off. An employee of seven years, David Steward then posted on an office

bulletin board the October 26, 2007, Dilbert strip[23] that compared management decisions to those of


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"drunken lemurs". The casino called this "very offensive"; they identified him from a surveillance tape, firedhim, and tried to prevent him from receiving unemployment insurance benefits. However, in December2007 an administrative law judge ruled that he would receive benefits, as his action was not intentionalmisbehavior. Scott Adams said it might be the first confirmed case of an employee being fired for posting a

Dilbert cartoon.[24] On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught

posting a comic strip which "compares managers to drunken lemurs".[25] Adams later said that fans shouldstick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature onDilbert.com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about thecontent of the strips. Adams has spoken positively about the change, saying, "This makes cartooning a

competitive sport."[26]

Dilbert's Desktop Games, a video gameThe Dilbert PrinciplePeter Principle, the opposite (and original basis) of the Dilbert PrinciplePlop: The Hairless Elbonian, another comics series by Scott AdamsSuperiority, a 1951 short story by Arthur C. Clarke which anticipates some themes of DilbertSeagull manager, management style

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