The Demotion of Dilbert

[krebs303]

The demotion of Dilbert continues, no comic relief for creator

There appears to be a growing epidemic of cranky creative types taking to the Internet to defend themselves from amateur critics.

Some are shameless in their self-promotion; others operate under the veil of anonymity.

Until they get busted, that is. This is what happened to Dilbert creator Scott Adams last week, in a public humiliation storyline that would suit a certain workplace drone comic strip character of his own creation. Adams was revealed to have been using an online pseudonym to bash message board users who did not have nice things to say about him.

 

[usedtobefast]

Dilbert is being outsourced and downsized.(I love manospeak)

 

[L'arriviste]

The demotion of Dilbert continues, no comic relief for creator

... Adams was revealed to have been using an online pseudonym to bash message board users who did not have nice things to say about him...

Thanks for the link! I did find the above rather disingenuous, for the article later says that "Adams confessed that he was indeed behind the mask". So surely the whole thing was his own fault.

You'd be quite a case to troll yourself up like Adams was doing, but you'd be just plain stupid to actually admit to your real identity like that.

I never liked Dilbert much. Not because of the cartoons themselves, but because I recall witnessing a senior police officer dodging crime fighting and public service to go through the same routine, apparently every day. Chuckling to himself at length over the newspaper, photocopying the Dilbert cartoon several times and posting it on the complete range of departmental noticeboards. Given the abject waste of public resources, my taste for the massive irony of the thing - this officer was exactly like Dilbert's cretinous bosses, so the jokes were on him - was somewhat tinged with disgust.

 

[Cobblestones]

So, who here is Contador?