30 Facts About Dilbert

Dilbert began syndication by United Feature Syndicate in April 1989.

In late December 2010, it was announced that Dilbert would move to Universal Uclick beginning in June 2011, where it remained until 2022.

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake, where office politics preclude productivity, employees' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised.

Strip's central character, Dilbert is a technically-minded single white male.

Dilbert is a skilled engineer but has poor social and romantic lives.

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Dilbert is hopelessly incompetent at management, and often tries to compensate for his lack of skills with countless group therapy sessions and business strategies that rarely bear fruit.

Dilbert's brother is a demon named "Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light", and according to Adams, the pointy hair is intended to remind one of devils' horns.

Dilbert often carries a cup of coffee, calmly sipping from it even in the midst of chaos or office-shaking revelations.

Dilbert is even more socially inept than Dilbert, and references to his lack of personal hygiene are not uncommon.

Dilbert's is often frustrated at her work, because she does not get proper recognition, which she believes is because she is female, though in reality it is likely because she has a quick, often violent temper, sometimes putting her "Fist of Death" to use, even with the Pointy-haired Boss.

Dilbert once succeeded, but became bored with the ensuing peace, and quit.

Dilbert enjoys pulling scams on unsuspecting and usually dull customers to steal their money.

Dilbert was supposed to be a one-time character but resonated with readers so well that Adams brought him back as the HR director.

Dilbert is Indian, and has graduated from the Indian Institutes of Technology .

Dilbert is seen regularly at the lunch table with Wally and Dilbert, experiencing jarring realizations of the nature of corporate life.

Dilbert is only slightly less clueless than the Pointy-haired Boss.

Dilbert is referenced by name more often in older comics, but he is still seen occasionally.

Dilbert has been fired and killed numerous times, in which case a new Ted is apparently hired.

Dilbert's has a less forceful personality than Alice and often seems to get taken advantage of by the other employees.

Popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications, including several appearances on the cover of Fortune Magazine.

Xerox management had recognized what more gullible Dilbert readers did not: Dilbert is an offbeat sugary substance that helps the corporate medicine go down.

Dilbert acted in much the way that he portrays management consultants in the comic strip, with an arrogant manner and bizarre suggestions, such as comparing mission statements to broccoli soup.

Dilbert convinced the executives to change their existing mission statement for their New Ventures Group from "provide Logitech with profitable growth and related new business areas" to "scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission-inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings".

In 2001, he collaborated with design company IDEO to come up with the "perfect cubicle", a fitting creation since many of the Dilbert strips make fun of the standard cubicle desk and the environment that it creates.

In 1995, Dilbert was the first syndicated comic strip to be published for free on the Internet.

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Joe Zabel stated that Dilbert had a large influence on many of the webcomics that followed it, establishing the "nerdcore" genre as it found its audience.

Dilbert won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1997, and was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards.

Dilbert was adapted into a UPN animated television series starring Daniel Stern as Dilbert, Chris Elliott as Dogbert, and Kathy Griffin as Alice.

The second season's two-episode finale included Dilbert getting pregnant with the child of a cow, a hillbilly, robot DNA, "several dozen engineers", an elderly billionaire, and an alien, eventually ending up in a custody battle with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the Judge.

The new Dilbert animations are animated versions of original comic strips produced by RingTales and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios.