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You are here: Home / Culture / Where Does Scott Adams Get His Ideas For the Dilbert Comic Strip and When Was Dilbert First Published?

Where Does Scott Adams Get His Ideas For the Dilbert Comic Strip and When Was Dilbert First Published?

February 10, 2020 by Karen Hill

Scott Adams gets his ideas for the Dilbert comic strip from a couple of different sources.

Adams was first a corporate cog in both the banking and the utilities industries, so a lot of fodder for his strip comes from personal experience.

But the “Dilbert” strip is known for soliciting ideas from its readership, and today it’s estimated that up to 20% of the story ideas come from reader e-mail.

Dilbert was first published on April 16, 1989, and appears in 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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