Dilbert
Everyone who has worked in an office knows how accurate Dilbert is. The self-serving, dim-witted boss. The lazy but resourceful coworker. The woman who’s determined to stand up for herself. The clueless customers. They’re all brought hilariously, achingly to life by Scott Adams.
Adams, who holds an MBA from Cal Berkeley, worked a number of self-described “humiliating and low-paying” jobs in banking and telecommunications until his cartooning career took off. He used those experiences to show the situations we see most often in Dilbert: the pointy-headed boss taking credit for Dilbert’s work … micromanagement and rampant bureaucratic meddling … and my favorite, the backward customers from Elbonia.
Dilbert was the first comic to make the transition to the Internet, which it did back in 1995. You can still enjoy a lot of strips at the website, dilbert.com, where you’ll see The Pointy-Haired Boss, Wally, Ted, Alice, Dogbert, Asok and other minor characters (like Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light)…