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A cartoon book featuring the vulnerable and socially challenged Dilbert, an engineer who struggles to cope with the rigours and stresses of everyday life. He lives with Dogbert, his megalomaniac dog, and his two dinosaurs, Bob and Dawn. Dilbert features in nearly 200 newspapers worldwide.Tags
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A very funny collection from the early days of Dilbert. More outrageous puns and generally bizarre situations, but I am a big fan of puns so this was a nice little treat. Worth tracking down.
Shave the Whales is the fourth collection of Dilbert comic strips. Dilbert is now known as a vicious satire of the modern office environment, but the early years of the strip were more heavily focused on the personal problems of Dilbert as a nerdish engineer trying to meet women and navigate a social environment for which he was temperamentally unsuited.
This collection is drawn from that earlier era, so the biting office humor is not nearly as prevalent as it would become later. Most of the now-familiar denizen's of Diblert's workplace are noticeably absent, and as a result the Dilbert character must carry most of the comedic weight by himself with little more than an assist from Dogbert. To provide a little bit of help, Adams show more introduces the pathetic Ratbert to the mix, and in the handful of office oriented strips we get the first iteration of a Wally-like character, although the character isn't actually named and it isn't quite Wally.
This remains a very funny collection though, as flashes of the satire that would come to the forefront later show up, and the strips featuring Dilbert's attempts to get dates are viciously funny as well. Though not as exceptional as the strip would later become, this is a great collection nonetheless.
This review has also been posted to my blog Dreaming About Other Worlds. show less
This collection is drawn from that earlier era, so the biting office humor is not nearly as prevalent as it would become later. Most of the now-familiar denizen's of Diblert's workplace are noticeably absent, and as a result the Dilbert character must carry most of the comedic weight by himself with little more than an assist from Dogbert. To provide a little bit of help, Adams show more introduces the pathetic Ratbert to the mix, and in the handful of office oriented strips we get the first iteration of a Wally-like character, although the character isn't actually named and it isn't quite Wally.
This remains a very funny collection though, as flashes of the satire that would come to the forefront later show up, and the strips featuring Dilbert's attempts to get dates are viciously funny as well. Though not as exceptional as the strip would later become, this is a great collection nonetheless.
This review has also been posted to my blog Dreaming About Other Worlds. show less
Ah, we're back with the daily panels of one of my favorite strips. "Dilbert" is probably the most cynical popular strip being published, and one of the funniest. An additional bonus is how often the humor drives home with a pointed truth. Introduces Ratbert and a Wally-like character.
Dilbert, one of the funniest (because it's true) comics of all time. I would like to have the full collection of the comics. Maybe he could start by making a book of the first 5-6 years of Dilbert like the Farside or Calvin & Hobbs.
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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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- Canonical title
- Shave the Whales
- Original publication date
- 1994-04-01
- People/Characters
- Dilbert
- Related movies
- Dilbert (1999 | IMDb)
- First words
- Dogbert, see who's at the door.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Hmm...love causes stupidity in lab rats.
- Disambiguation notice
- also published as The Best of Dilbert: Volume 1
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
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- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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- PN6727 .A3 .D55287 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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