Scott Adams: In his own words
For contractual reasons I can’t show you a Dilbert comic before it appears in newspapers. But I can show you this cropped image from a comic that I planned for 6/24. Unfortunately it didn’t make it past the editors at my syndication company, United Media. They felt that many newspapers…
Read MoreApparently some newspaper chose not to run this Dilbert comic from 5/15/06 because it features a winged monkey emerging from a lawyer’s butt. [missing image] As you might have noticed, I enjoy trying to figure out what I can get away with. I thought this one cleverly avoided the classic…
Read MoreMy comic on 4-3-06 managed to make it past some editors but not all of them. At least one newspaper changed “Uranus” to “Pluto.” Did your newspaper edit it? [missing image] I love trying to sneak past the editors filthy concepts that can be interpreted in innocent ways. That gives…
Read MoreThe toughest part about being a cartoonist is that every now and then I accidentally kill people. I claimed my first victim in the mid 90s, after an author put his name on a chapter from one of my books and submitted it to a magazine. During the ensuing legal…
Read MoreSeveral people sent comments to my blog yesterday saying they noticed that my comic on 9-6-05 that featured a porpoise killing a lawyer was published in two different versions. The tame version ran in newspapers and the edgier one ran on my website. What’s up with that, they wonder. Sometimes…
Read MoreWelcome to my first blog entry. If you’re reading this on company time, congratulations on beating the system. If you’re reading it on your own time, you really need to find a job where they pay you to do this sort of thing. Did you happen to see my comic…
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