Dilbert Comic Strip
Discussions revolve around the Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams, including nostalgia for its classic office humor, critiques of its decline and Adams' recent behavior, and comparisons to other strips like Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, and Garfield.
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The grandparent post implied the geek connection was drawing comic strips.
I used to enjoy Dilbert but I don't and haven't for some time. All things get a bit tired, even Peanuts palled, The wizard of ID is on loop.There's no law obligating a publisher to provide space to Adams.
Your comments remind me of Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame.
To be fair, it's Dilbert. This is a comic strip from a bygone era of observational "humor," like Garfield or Kathy.I don't think people actually expect humor, so much as "I find something in this comic strip that I recognize as similar to something I've encountered elsewhere."
I love that comic.Watterson, famously, never sold out. He is sort of an idealized, godlike figure, to many cartoonists.Reminds me of this Onion story: https://theonion.com/peeing-calvin-decals-now-recognized-as-...
Thanks! I was about to ask if this were that Scott Adams because most of what I've seen from him recently is... less relatable than I would have hoped. The weird bit is reading back over old Dilbert comics and you can kinda see the signs.
non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.htm...More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102
Reminds me of his comic strip. Same pictures every time, just different words.
I really hope he keeps making more, given the response to these first few comics.I grew up reading the Far Side in the newspaper every day. I remember the excitement of running out to get the paper to grab the comics before anyone else.Today I follow some comics on Instagram, which gives that same sort of excitement. I load up Instagram and among the pictures of my friends are some comics that I enjoy -- including one account that I'm sure is not legal but posts a Calvin and Hobbes
By the time this came out, Davis wasn't writing his own Garfield strips anymore. I remember him saying in an interview that he thought this week was a "fun joke" to play on readers. He obviously didn't read much into it.Am I alone in really wishing this sort of thing wasn't on Hacker News? Not just because it deals with comics, but because it makes a mockery of real analysis. Garfield is not art. It's brilliant marketing, but no actual content - not by the time this strip had been created, an