‘Dilbert’ Dropped by Washington Post, LA Times as More Papers Condemn Scott Adams’ Racist Rant
thewrap.comdropping “Dilbert” from their comic strip sections kept rising on Saturday as The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times both announced that they will no longer print the strip following cartoonist Scott Adams’ racist rant in a YouTube live stream this past Wednesday. “The Comics pages should be a place where our readers can engage with societal issues, reflect on the human condition, and enjoy a few laughs.
We intend to maintain that tradition in a way that is welcoming to all readers,” the LA Times said in a statement. “Dilbert” will run for the final time in the Post and the LA Times on Sunday as the Sunday comics sections are usually printed in advance.
The two major newspapers join a list of publications cutting “Dilbert” that includes The Boston Globe, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and the USA Today network, which operates over 300 local newspapers including the Arizona Republic, Cincinnati Enquirer, Detroit Free Press, Indianapolis Star, Austin American-Statesman and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.These newspapers join 77 others that dropped “Dilbert” last year, including the San Francisco Chronicle, after Adams introduced a Black character to the strip designed to mock “woke culture.”Debuting in 1989, “Dilbert” became a popular comic strip for its satirization of office culture, following a hapless Silicon Valley engineer as he navigates the follies of his pointy-haired boss alongside his jaded co-workers and megalomaniacal pet, Dogbert.
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