Plain Dealer drops Dilbert

[OscarMadison]

Calvin and Hobbes was one of those strips I saw very differently once I was responsible for a little person. Every parent I knew loathed it the same way they hated Rugrats. Once there was a real little boy in a car seat speculating if his Jeff Gordon car would fly out the window and meet us in Hopkinsville, I saw their point.

Never got into Dilbert. The most I saw of Adams' comic was in the background on The Drew Carey Show.

 

[MTM]

We did a comics survey 15 or 20 years ago and one or two of the strips showed very little readership. Once they were cancelled, though, the crazies came out of the woodwork. I'd rather take a phone call from a pissed-off soccer mom that some of those idiots.

I’ve probably shared this here before. Going back maybe 25 years, I worked at a paper in a heavy senior citizen community and we canceled Hazel. It was our most expensive comic and was never funny or even amusing. It made Family Circus look like a laugh riot.
There was such an uproar, we had to bring Hazel back.

 

[Azrael]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...creator-scott-adamss-black-hate-group-remark/

Adams posted a poll on Twitter Sunday morning after the backlash, asking users to weigh in: “True or false: The media created a surge in racial division and then canceled me for pointing out the obvious impact of their evil work.”

“I’m accepting criticism from anyone who has seen the full context here,” he wrote in an earlier post. “The rest of you are in a fake news bubble but I trust you suspected that.”

 

[I Should Coco]

He’s enjoying nailing himself to the cross far too much.

Whatever — I never really liked his comic strip anyway.

 

[playthrough]

Is this why Dilbert is drawn without a mouth?

 

[matt_garth]

 

[dixiehack]

Calvin and Hobbes was one of those strips I saw very differently once I was responsible for a little person. Every parent I knew loathed it the same way they hated Rugrats. Once there was a real little boy in a car seat speculating if his Jeff Gordon car would fly out the window and meet us in Hopkinsville, I saw their point.

Never got into Dilbert. The most I saw of Adams' comic was in the background on The Drew Carey Show.

I must be as terrible a parent as my ex thinks I am. I got my then 10-year-old the complete box set for Christmas.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I must be as terrible a parent as my ex thinks I am. I got my then 10-year-old the complete box set for Christmas.

I got into Calvin & Hobbes in my teens and don't remember my parents ever objecting. (Not sure my Dad remembers today who Calvin & Hobbes are)

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Having kids changes your perspective on the parents in "Calvin and Hobbes," but if anything it just makes it better.

 

[MTM]

 

[Azrael]

cause and effect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/27/dilbert-scott-adams-racist-rant-canceled/?

 

[jr/shotglass]

cause and effect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/27/dilbert-scott-adams-racist-rant-canceled/?

Shortened version: You have the right to swing your fist to your heart's delight. That right ends where my nose begins.

 

[Azrael]

Shortened version: You have the right to swing your fist to your heart's delight. That right ends where my nose begins.

In lots of jurisdictions, taking the swing is assault.

If it connects, that's battery.

Know your local laws before starting your next donnybrook!

 

[Azrael]

hmmmmm

 

[garrow]

Planned gopsolescence

 

[swingline]

Is this why Dilbert is drawn without a mouth?

Speak no evil. Wait …

 

[sgreenwell]

Word in fandom circles is Adams has been nuts for years. He thinks reality isn't real and he's writing the simulation. I thought he might be trolling. Maybe not.

I used to be a big comics fan, primarily "Calvin and Hobbes" but eventually branching out into things like "Get Fuzzy" and "Dilbert" and "Pearls Before Swine." Basically, anything available in The Providence Journal or that wasn't created in 1952. (Although, "Peanuts" still slaps.) Early Dilbert is mostly chuckle-worthy and droll, but I remember thinking Adams himself was going off the rails when I read one of his treasuries, and there was a long section on affirmations and self-realization and other claptrap. Since then, the comic is mostly what it is, but Adams pops up in the news every few months for doing weird or bad ****. It doesn't surprise me that he's gotten himself cancelled, whether it was intentional or unintentional on his part.

 

[Azrael]

one of us doesn't know what 'hyperbole' means . . .

 

[goalmouth]

Reminds me of when lamebrain B.C. cartoonist Johnny Hart turned into a born-again anti-semite, anti-Muslim ****stain.

 

[Slacker]