Good Grief!

Why would I re-post a 12-year-old parody (from  March 2, 2011) of "Dilbert" just as the comic itself is being given a well-deserved heave-ho off the comic poop-deck?

I dunno.... maybe to show what a funny, relevant and completely non-racist Dilbert comic might have looked like?

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Did I ever tell you about the time that Scott Adams, that racist scum-bag with the giant brain, threatened to sue me?

It was back in 1995 and I was running a web site devoted to satirizing one particular syndicated comic (Don't ask) that has long since ceased to grace this nation's funny pages. This comic particular featured a main character named Bob.

For the site's home page I decided to create an animated GIF featuring Dilbert repeatedly kicking Bob's schmucky tucchus. Why Dilbert and not, say Dagwood Bumstead or Li'l Abner? Who knows.

Keep in mind that this web site was small potatoes as web sites go and Google was still in its infancy. Yet within a couple of months after publishing the animation I got a curt email from Scumbag Scott telling me I'd better delete my creation muy pronto or there would be legal trouble.

What I didn't know at the time was that I had a perfect Constitutional right to depict Dilbert as I did. What I DID know was that Adams' syndicate had lawyers on staff that were bigger and better funded than the lawyers on MY staff. Which is is to say.... none.

In response I altered Dilbert's appearance, to better illustrate my evolving opinion of the character, but Adams was unmollified so I just canned the whole project.

Here, in case you're wondering, is the animation in question. Yes, this is the original size. Web pages were much teensier back in the olden days.




=Lefty=