Dilbert is a comic strip I will never understand. It's popularity is unexplainable much like the popularity of the Simpson's and Family Guy guy has been on television. Dilberts main focus as a comic strip of course is at work and just this idea seems like it sold of failed on the first letter an editor received to syndicate this strip. I cannot conceive how this really bad comic just got some following over the years and became almost its own cultural institution.
It is crudely drawn and the dialogue short and unfunny. The mundane nature of corporate culture is really not amusing to the millions stuck in this spectrum and I often wondered why people would post this comic strip in the various jobs I have had over the years. Dilbert is a satire of the workplace and the mismanagement we all see but as a concept for a comic strip the gag gets as old as a the office job is attempts to parody. This strip looks like a four year old drew it and just the crude lame artwork is enough to get this strip taken out of newspapers and so forth. Some have even suggested Dilbert actually works against the workers it tries to work for as showing them often as lazy and clueless cubicle zombies with little take charge of improving their conditions. Dilbert does reflect a lot of mainstream middle class white collar workers tough in accepting whatever is given and just being happy their work is not actual physical labor that hey truly more disdain as an occupation. That is about the only thing writer Scott Adams seems to get through with his tale of putting the awful qualities of corporate culture into a comic funny page versions we can see many times in various versions. This is a comic strip that is so overdone and unfortunately continues as the great ones like Calvin and Hobbes shut down decades ago.
It is crudely drawn and the dialogue short and unfunny. The mundane nature of corporate culture is really not amusing to the millions stuck in this spectrum and I often wondered why people would post this comic strip in the various jobs I have had over the years. Dilbert is a satire of the workplace and the mismanagement we all see but as a concept for a comic strip the gag gets as old as a the office job is attempts to parody. This strip looks like a four year old drew it and just the crude lame artwork is enough to get this strip taken out of newspapers and so forth. Some have even suggested Dilbert actually works against the workers it tries to work for as showing them often as lazy and clueless cubicle zombies with little take charge of improving their conditions. Dilbert does reflect a lot of mainstream middle class white collar workers tough in accepting whatever is given and just being happy their work is not actual physical labor that hey truly more disdain as an occupation. That is about the only thing writer Scott Adams seems to get through with his tale of putting the awful qualities of corporate culture into a comic funny page versions we can see many times in various versions. This is a comic strip that is so overdone and unfortunately continues as the great ones like Calvin and Hobbes shut down decades ago.
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