Robb Armstrong launched what he calls the “black Sharpie revolt” after discovering that “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams made racist remarks. As “Dilbert” is dropped from newspapers, artists weigh in with condemnation, including their own satirical cartoons.
When reached by The Post, Adams declined to comment on the AMU termination. On Saturday, he texted The Post about what his client list might be: “By Monday, around zero.”, wrote Monday that what “doomed” Adams was that he “let his increasingly antisocial personal views appear in the strip.
Peterson, a retired editor, told The Post that he wished individual newspaper editors would “take responsibility” for what is in their newspapers. But “the bottom line,” he said, “is that Adams put his client papers in a position where cancellations were inevitable.” At its peak, “Dilbert” was syndicated to more than 2,000 newspapers. In the ’90s, it became an iconic strip as a daily satiric response to office cubicle culture, spawning best-selling books, calendars and a short-lived UPN television show. In 1998, Adams received the prestigious Reuben Award as outstanding cartoonist from the National Cartoonists Society.
Some other cartoonists, such as Luke McGarry and Clay Jones, depicted Adams’s titular office-drone character as bigoted
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