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Now Dilbert is racist! Popular comic strip is canned by 77 newspapers after artist Scott Adams began incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including black character who identifies as white
- The popular comic strip was booted from a number of publications owned by Lee Enterprises
- Cartoonist Scott Adams said that some newspapers voiced concerns after receiving complaints about his comic content
- Gilbert strips feature in newspapers across 57 countries, and in 19 languages - and there are over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars in print
PUBLISHED: 19:22 BST, 21 September 2022 | UPDATED: 22:57 BST, 21 September 2022
A popular comic strip has been canned by 77 newspapers after its creator Scott Adams started incorporating anti-woke plotlines, including a character black that identifies as white.
Adams' much-loved 'Dilbert' comics have been in circulation since 1989 and frequently poke fun at office culture, but he announced he was sensationally dropped by publisher Lee Enterprises.
The media company owns nearly 100 newspapers across the country - including The Buffalo News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Arizona Daily Sun - and has been publishing Adams' jokes about the corporate ladder for years.
He told Fox News that some newspapers voiced concerns after receiving complaints about his comic content.
But he could not say for sure if that had anything to do with the removal of 'Dilbert.'
Adams said: 'It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess.'
The removal of the strips has had a 'significant' financial impact on Adams, but it's unclear how much money he was making from the partnership to begin with.
You can get some of his comics for free frm https://dilbert.com/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Scott-Adams-included-anti-woke-plotlines.html
