Every day I take it for granted that I will find a new comic strip for Dilbert and I come to realize that in the last year alone there has not been a single day where Dilbert strip has taken a day off. On a lighter note, I am just curious on how Scott Adams works, does he provide comic strips worth two-three months at one point of time then start working on the next set of strips? Does he ever take vacation or a day off? What is more intriguing is the fact that each comic strip has got a theme which gets conveyed in a single strip with four - five boxes, how can someone churn out comic strips at this rate without getting exhausted (mentally ofcourse!). I understand this is creativity at its best and that's the reason he is earning millions but still for some one to come up with brand new situations and scenarios on a regular basis is something extraordinary. Well, there are always re-occuring themes like the meeting routine or project schedule analysis or the manager's ignorance on technology, but still they are not so evident as they satirical comic variety in them varies to the extent that you ignore those theme repeats. To incubate an idea and represent the same within a strip is really an act of a genius as it needs to convey the intention and humor to the reader within that short attention span. Hats off to all those comic strip creator geniuses.
Note: I think one of our "trivia" guys like Koi can definitely tell us 4 specific instances/dates in the last 30 years of Dilbert's publication as to when the strip actually took a break.
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I prefer this.
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