1980's Ongoing Comic Strip, Dilbert, Ripped Out Of Newspapers

By Ryan Canady | Saturday, 24 September 2022 11:45 PM
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1980's Ongoing Comic Strip, Dilbert, Ripped Out Of Newspapers

Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, has announced that his work has been pulled from nearly 80 newspapers that had previously run the funny.

Dilbert has been in circulation since 1989. Adams has been the author and illustrator of the comic since that time, and it has remained a steadfast part of the newspaper world for that entire time. That said, it appears that Adams has upset some newspaper owners with some of the content he has included in his comics.

The comic is a riff on office culture and has been wildly popular worldwide. The comic has spawned numerous books and has been produced in 19 different languages around the globe.

Adams did say that Dilbert was not the only comic strip removed from the papers but that it was clear that choices about which ones stayed or went were based on individual decisions by the newspapers.

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In recent additions to his comic strip, Adams has poked fun at the left-wing with criticisms of Environmental, Social, and Governance issues that the Left so often likes to take on. He has made these criticisms through a character named Dave, who is black but who identifies as white.

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This is why Adams feels that his comic strip has been canceled. For these reasons, he is confident that the left-leaning newspaper editors and others have pushed his comics off their pages.

Scott Adams has stated that the wokeness of today’s politics has entered the workplace culture, making it fair game for his comic strip. He also feels it is no coincidence that his comic was canceled in many newspapers. He even took to Twitter to clarify that he believes it is no coincidence that this happened to his cartoons.

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Adams says canceling his comic strip has dealt him a “significant” financial blow. He also noted that the material that he puts in his comic strips is not meant to be about taking a political stance one way or the other. Instead, it is about getting people to think about what these issues truly mean in their lives.

In other words, he wants people to think beyond the left versus right mentality and try to understand for themselves what it means when specific issues are brought up in the workplace.

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