Dilbert

Dilbert is a popular American comic strip. Written and drawn by Scott Adams, the comic is known for its heavily satirical humor about a micromanaged office, featuring an engineer as the title character. The strip has run in newspapers since April 16, 1989, spawning several books, an animated television series, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items.

Media

Compilations of newspaper strips

• Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons — April 16, 1989 (first strip) to October 21, 1989
• Shave the Whales — October 22, 1989 to August 4, 1990
• Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! — August 5, 1990 to May 18, 1991
• It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone — May 19, 1991 to December 13, 1992
• Still Pumped from Using the Mouse — December 14, 1992 to September 27, 1993
• Fugitive From the Cubicle Police — September 28, 1993 to February 11, 1995
• Casual Day Has Gone Too Far — February 5, 1995 to November 19, 1995
• I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot — November 20, 1995 to August 31, 1996
• Journey to Cubeville — September 1, 1996 to January 18, 1998
• Don't Step in the Leadership — January 12, 1998 to October 18, 1998
• Random Acts of Management — October 19, 1998 to July 25, 1999
• Excuse Me While I Wag — July 26, 1999 to April 30, 2000
• When Did Ignorance Become A Point Of View? — May 1, 2000 to February 4, 2001
• Another Day In Cubicle Paradise — February 5, 2001 to November 11, 2001
• When Body Language Goes Bad — November 12, 2001 to August 18, 2002
• Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review — August 19, 2002 to May 25, 2003
• Don't Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — May 26, 2003 to February 29, 2004
• The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head — March 1, 2004 to December 5, 2004

Special compilations

• Telling It Like It Isn't — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-1324-6
• Work is a Contact Sport — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-2878-2
• Seven Years of Highly Defective People: Scott Adams' Guided Tour of the Evolution of Dilbert — 1997; A grab bag of strips from 1989 to 1995, with handwritten notes by Scott Adams
• Random Acts of Catness — 1998; ISBN 0-8362-5277-2
• Work—The Wally Way — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7480-6
• Alice in Blunderland — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7479-2
• Dilbert Gives You the Business — 1999
• A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 — 1999; Color version of all Sunday strips published in newspapers from 1995 through 1999 (typical compilations have black and white Sunday strips)
• What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker — A compilation of select comic strips from 1989 to 2001
• It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It — 2004; Another grab bag of strips from 1997-2004, with Adams' handwritten notes, again

Related Merchandise

• Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President

Business books

• Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies — 1991; Original cartoons with Dogbert as a guide to the business world
• Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless — 1993; Original cartoons with satirical advice on life
• Dogbert's Top-Secret Management Handbook — 1996
• The Dilbert Principle — April 1996
• The Dilbert Future — May 1997
• The Joy of Work — 1998
• Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel — October 2002

Non-Dilbert:

• God's Debris — May, 2001
• The Religion War — Sequel to God's Debris

Animated series episode guide

The production number is shown in parentheses.

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The first season followed around a creation of a product called the "Gruntmaster 6000". Episodes 1-3 involved creating it, 5 involved having it survive "Bob Bastard", and the sixth was production. The last one was the testing (to an incredibly stupid family in Squiddler's Patch, Texas).

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