Dilbert
Overview
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
written and drawn by Scott Adams
Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation....
. First published on April 16, 1989, Dilbert is known for its satirical
Satire
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office humor
Office humor
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about a white-collar
White-collar worker
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, micromanage
Micromanagement
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d office
Office
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featuring the engineer
Engineer
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Dilbert
Dilbert (character)
Dilbert is a fictional character and the main character and protagonist of the Dilbert comic strip. He is a white collar office worker who has a rare medical condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical , an idea that was explored in the animated...
as the title character
Title role
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. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series
Dilbert (TV series)
Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television...
, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise
Merchandising
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items. Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.
