“I shook the box intentionally. I did not realize how hard I shook it,” Scott Adams told The Post about the comments that prompted newspapers to drop the once-heralded comic strip “Dilbert.”
segregation. He declared that Black Americans are part of a “hate group” and urged White people to “get the hell away from Black people.”
The comic about the lives of beleaguered cubicle-culture drones was once an omnipresent source of humor in American culture, capturing white-collar cynicism and malaise before “Office Space” and “The Office,” even entering Adams’s satiric corporate-incompetence conceptin more than 2,000 papers at its peak — rarefied air then populated by “Peanuts” and “Garfield” — andAdvertisement
“It was absolutely electric,” Armstrong said of that time, noting that new cartoonists “were ecstatic about the opportunity in front of us.” “However, as the same managers walked through their buildings, it became clear that ‘Dilbert’ was a favorite of employees in all departments, as ‘Dilbert’ strips were taped to the walls of cubicles throughout the buildings,” Toler said. By mocking business through starkly unadorned panels, Adams had a satiric and visual niche — a combination that Toler found appealing.Adams became the first prominent cartoonist to include his email address in the strip, Lago said.
By 1998, a formally attired Adams was in a Pasadena, Calif., ballroom at the top of the heap, picking up the National Cartoonists Society’s esteemed Reuben Award as outstanding cartoonist.
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