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When Dilbert first appeared in newspapers across the country in 1989, office workers looked around suspiciously. Was its creator, Scott Adams, a pen name for someone who worked amongst them? After all, the humor was just too eerily funny and familiar. Since then, Dilbert has become more than a cartoon character. He's become an office icon. In Another Day in Cubicle Paradise Dilbert and his cohorts, Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, and the pointy-haired boss, once again entertain with their cubicle show more humor. From bizarre personnel decisions to meetings gone bad, from schizoid secretaries to consultants from hell, Another Day in Cubicle Paradise provides a way to get all those darn comic strips off the breakroom bulletin board. show lessTags
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I'm not sure I get the culture that produces Dilbert. Maybe it's because I've never worked in that environment. I definitely don't get the Cubicle thing. How do you gossip properly with your mates?
Anyway, yes it was funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but amusing. Management are all evil and twisted and the staff are all a bit odd. This I can identify with. Where are the trade unions? Is outrage
I'm not sure I get the culture that produces Dilbert. Maybe it's because I've never worked in that environment. I definitely don't get the Cubicle thing. How do you gossip properly with your mates?
Anyway, yes it was funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but amusing. Management are all evil and twisted and the staff are all a bit odd. This I can identify with. Where are the trade unions? Is outrage
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
I love the Dilbert comic strips because sometimes they remind me of office stories of my own, but also because of their ability to put so much satirical power into three small boxes!
Another great collection of Dilbert strips, morale-booster to employees and bane to management everywhere.
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Scott Adams, Cartoonist Scott Adams was born and raised in Windham, New York in the Catskill Mountains. He received a B.A. in economics from Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a certified hypnotist. Adams worked in a bank for eight years and, while a bank teller, was robbed twice at show more gunpoint. He also worked for Pacific Bell for nine years and describes both jobs as "humiliating and low paying jobs." It was during this time, that Adams created the character Dilbert. He was entertaining himself during meetings by drawing insulting cartoons of his co-workers and bosses. In 1988, he mailed some sample comic strips featuring Dilbert to some major cartoon syndicates. He was offered a contract and Dilbert was launched in approximately fifty papers in 1989. Adams began working on Dilbert full time as well as speaking, writing, doing interviews, and designing artwork for licensed products. Dilbert is published in over 1,200 newspapers and has a hard cover business book called "The Dilbert Principle." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2002
- People/Characters
- Dilbert; Dogbert; Alice; Wally; Pointy-Haired Boss
- Dedication
- For the best negative shopper ever.
- First words
- I hired a creep to help determine our product's features.
- Quotations
- Alice: I found out I can kill people by looking at them.
Dilbert: I wondered why you were smiling. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There are lots of whiners in "A" through "M."
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.56973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips Cartoons, Caricatures, Comic Strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States
- LCC
- PN6727 .A3 .D55254 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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