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Dilbert
''Dilbert'' is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. It is known for its satire, satirical office humor about a White-collar worker, white-collar, micromanagement, micromanaged office with engineer Dilbert (character), Dilbert as the title role, title character. It has led to dozens of books, an Dilbert (TV series), animated television series, a Dilbert's Desktop Games, video game, and hundreds of themed merchandising, merchandise items. ''Dilbert Future'' and ''The Joy of Work'' are among the best-selling books in the series. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society National Cartoonists Society#Reuben Award, Reuben Award and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award for his work. ''Dilbert'' appears online and as of 2013 was published daily in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 25 languages. In 2023, ''Dilbert'' was dropped by numerous independent newspapers as well as its distributor, Andrews McMeel Syndicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointy-haired Boss
This is a list of characters that have appeared in Scott Adams' ''Dilbert'' comic strip. Primary characters Dilbert The main character in the strip, Dilbert is a stereotypical technically-minded single male. Prior to October 2014, he was usually wearing a white dress shirt, black trousers and a red-and-black striped tie that inexplicably curves upward; since then, he has worn a red polo shirt with a name badge on a lanyard around his neck. Dilbert received his master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT; he understands engineering well and has good ideas, but has a poor social life. Neither attractive nor blessed with tremendous social graces, Dilbert is capable, but ignored at work and struggles with his romantic life. While he is frequently seen having dates with eligible women, his dates almost invariably end in disaster, usually in surreal and bizarre ways. Dilbert loves computers and technology and will spend much of his free time playing with such things. He had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is an American author and cartoonist. He is the creator of the ''Dilbert'' comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of business, commentary, and satire. Adams worked in various corporate roles before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995. While working at Pacific Bell in 1989, Adams created ''Dilbert.'' By the mid-1990s, the strip had gained national prominence in the United States and began to reach a worldwide audience. ''Dilbert'' remained popular throughout the following decades, spawning several books written by Adams. Adams writes in a Satire, satirical way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern corporations. In addition, Adams has written books in various other areas, including the Pandeism, pandeistic spiritual novella ''God's Debris'' and books on political and management topics, including ''Loserthink''. In February 2023, ''Dilbert'' was dropped by numerous newspapers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilbert (TV Series)
''Dilbert'' is an American adult animated sitcom produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox and United Media, and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television. The series aired on UPN from January 25, 1999 to July 25, 2000. The series is an adaptation of the comic strip of the same name by Scott Adams, who also served as executive producer and showrunner for the series along with former ''Seinfeld'' writer Larry Charles. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, and was UPN's highest-rated comedy series premiere at that point in the network's history; it lasted two seasons with thirty episodes and won a Primetime Emmy Award for its title sequence. ''Dilbert'' received positive critical reviews which praised its humor. Synopsis The series follows the adventures of a middle-aged white-collar office worker, named Dilbert, who is extremely intelligent in regards to all things that fall within the boundaries of electrical engineering. Despite his intelligence he is unable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilbert (character)
Dilbert is a fictional character and the main character and protagonist of the comic strip of the same name, created by Scott Adams. The character has ideas which are typically sensible and occasionally even revolutionary, but they are rarely pursued because he is powerless. He is frustrated by the incompetence and malevolence of his co-workers (most often the Pointy-Haired Boss) and often is sarcastic and snide. He was voiced by Daniel Stern in the television show. Character description In May 1995, the Press Enterprise called Dilbert a once-in-a-decade "angst-ridden anti-hero, a Nietzschean nebbish, an us-against-the-Universe Everyperson around whom our insecurities collect like iron shavings to a magnet". Michael Smith, a marketing professor at Temple University, called Dilbert "the Snoopy of the business world". Dilbert's unusual name was suggested to Scott Adams by a co-worker; Adams later found that the name likely came from a cartoon character, Dilbert Groundloop, an ine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilbert's Desktop Games
''Dilbert's Desktop Games'' is a collection of ''Dilbert''-related games for Windows. List of games ;Can-O-Matic 2 :Employees are fired out of a cannon at various gadgets, some of which malfunction badly. ;Elbonian Airlines :Similar to Can-O-Matic; managers are fired from a large slingshot and must land on various cities and modes of transportation. ;Boss Evaders :A ''Space Invaders'' take-off; Dilbert must avoid the pink slips shot at him by fleets of descending managers while attempting to hit them with reports. ;Project Pass-Off :A game similar to air hockey; Dilbert must face off against Zimbu the monkey in an attempt to gather good items thrown by a boss, while fending off bad ones. ;Enduring Fools :Shock and hurt people saying inane things with a phaser borrowed from Dogbert. ;CEO Simulator :Take the role of a CEO in charge of a business, hiring/firing/motivating employees to help the company grow. ;Techno Raiders :The main game of the collection. Dilbert must sear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Uclick
Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other content. Some of its best-known products include '' Dear Abby'', '' Doonesbury'', '' Ziggy'', '' Garfield'', '' Ann Coulter'', '' Richard Roeper'' and '' News of the Weird''. A subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, it is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It was formed in 2009 and renamed in January 2017. History Universal Press Syndicate (UPS) was founded in 1970 by Jim Andrews and John McMeel. The company began syndicating Garry Trudeau's '' Doonesbury'' comic strip in October 1970. Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975 for his work on ''Doonesbury''. The strip was syndicated in more than 1,400 newspapers worldwide. Over decades, the syndicate added other well-known comic strips including '' Zi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Strip
A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Caption, captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal Daily comic strip, strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday newspaper, Sunday papers offered longer sequences in Sunday comics, special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. Most strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are ''Blondie (comic strip), Blondie'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and ''Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Okay To Be White
"It's okay to be white" (IOTBW) is an alt-right slogan which originated as part of an organized Internet troll, trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017. A /pol/ user described it as a proof of concept that an otherwise innocuous message could be used maliciously to spark Mass media, media Backlash (sociology), backlash. Posters and stickers stating "It's okay to be white" were placed in streets in the United States as well as on campuses in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The slogan has been supported by white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Media coverage of the event, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson asking "What's the correct position? That it's not okay to be white?", was seen as reacting in the way that the trolling campaign had intended. Background The suggestion for the use of posters with the saying originated on the message board /pol/ of 4chan, with the intent of provoking reactions. The saying was later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Feature Syndicate
United Feature Syndicate, Inc. (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along with the Newspaper Enterprise Association) from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication. United Features has syndicated many notable comic strips, including ''Peanuts'', '' Garfield'', ''Li'l Abner'', ''Dilbert'', '' Monty'', '' Nancy'', '' Over the Hedge'', and '' Marmaduke''. History United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919.Booker, M. Keith. "United Feature Syndicate," in ''Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas'' ( ABC-CLIO, 2014), p. 399."United Feature Syndicate Buys Metropolitan Service From Elser: Both Firms Will Retain Separate Identities, With Elser Remaining as Vice-President — Monte Bourjaily to Direct Both Organizations," ''Editor & Publisher'' (March 15, 1930). Archived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
