Scott Adams
It's hard to remember how big of a leap forward "Dilbert" was ~35 years ago.
Scott Adams say his cancer prognosis is dire.
Rather than wait until I post “Scott Adams, RIP” to express my appreciation of him, let me point out how extraordinarily funny his Dilbert comic strip was three and a half decades ago:
Dilbert was ground-breakingly funny in the 1990s. It seems obvious now that a white collar tech workplace is hilarious, but nobody realized that before Scott. Heck, he hadn't figured that out himself yet when he launched "Dilbert" in 1989. It took him a few years to hit his stride, to move his comic strip from Dilbert’s house to Dilbert’s cubicle.
He soon came up with the idea of including his AOL email address in each strip so that he could crowdsource funny incidents from his readers.
Sad news to hear.
Dilbert and the Far Side were welcome humor to greet each morning back in the 1980s and 90s.
I remember the first time I saw Dilbert was some strips tacked to the announcement board at a developers’ seminar. And the joke was based on understanding binary digits.
I thought, this is clever, but how many people is this going to appeal to?
It turns out: A lot, I guess. Of course, back then, the IT community was a lot smaller.