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Dilbert: 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar

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Why are there only 6 comics per week? They didn't put in the Sunday 8-panel strips.

I fully understand that most people have these at their work desk, so they see these 5 days a week (one hopes), or maybe 6 if you're unlucky. But to not have 7 comics a week is rather lame, or dare I say weasel-ish.

The quality of the paper and stand are just fine.

I do think the Dilbert logo in the lower right corner is a bit loud. the 2010 was nice, not overly showy or distracting.

I buy this calendar each year. If you are a Dilbert fan, there is nothing better than starting off the day by reading the day's cartoon. The calendar does feature previously published material, but it is still funny and very fitting for anyone working in the corporate environment. The most difficult thing for me is to keep from looking ahead.

If you're new to Dilbert, he's a small guy who works in a highly bureaucratic white collar office. The comics satirize office politics beautifully. The humor is similar to the TV series The Office, but Dilbert was the original.

I give the Dilbert day-to-day calendar to my father every year for Christmas. He works in senior management and very much enjoys having a new Dilbert strip to read everyday and to share with his staff. When he goes away, he actually takes the pages that he is going to miss with him so that he doesn't miss reading any. He often saves hilarious and appropriate cartoons to give to my husband (who works in IT) or to me (I work in Marketing). If you work in an office environment - or have escaped from one! - this is a wonderful calendar.

While the day-to-day calendar has been around for a few years now, I was pleasantly surprised to see one change in this year's format: all the cartoon strips are now in color! Otherwise the layout and format is as per previous years. The inside pages are shrinkwrapped so they are well protected in transit to you.

The other thing I appreciate about the Dilbert calendars is that there is enough material to keep them fresh. Before Dilbert, I used to give my father a Farside day-to-day calendar, but after 3-4 years he noticed that some cartoons were repeating from previous years. So far this has not occurred with the Dilbert calendar. (The cartoons are also different from the ones that appear on the daily Dilbert on Dilbert.com) I highly recommend it.

I've bought this calendar for years and given many as gifts. This year, I opened it up to find that although they call it a day to day calendar, it is NOT a page a day calendar, it's a six page a week calendar. The publisher, and one presumes Scott Adams agreed, decided to cheapen it by not including a Sunday comic. Saturday and Sunday are combined with one "daily" strip, not a Sunday comic. Kind of like ice cream makers putting three pints in a container that looks like it is still a traditional 1/2 gallon brick or Georgia Pacific making the sheets of toilet paper smaller, Andrews McMeel and Scott Adams decided to jump on the "shaft the customer" bandwagon by eliminating the Sunday strips and they didn't even bother to change the description of the product. Get me once, shame on you. Get me twice, shame on me, this is my last year for Dilbert.

If you're new to Dilbert, he's a small guy who works in a highly bureaucratic engineering firm. The comics satirize office politics beautifully.

The 2010 Day to Day calendar is a small block of 365 dated comic strips, designed to be torn off on a daily basis. Each page is printed in color - the overall color scheme is green and purple. This year a new addition to the Day to Day calendar is the "daily extra" printed on the back of each page. Sometimes it's a small brain teaser (eg a sudoku puzzle, a word search or a maze). Or it might be a riddle, a joke, a piece of trivia or an inspiring quote. There are also occasional household hints. On the weekend pages there might be a template to write notes for the babysitter or just a blank space to jot notes.

Unlike previous years, the 2010 calendar is not internally shrinkwrapped, but it still arrived without damage.

I give the Dilbert day-to-day calendar to my father every year for Christmas. He very much enjoys having a new Dilbert strip to read everyday and often saves cartoons to pass onto others. If you work in an office environment - or have escaped from one! - this is a wonderful calendar.

What happened to this calendar?? Did the pointy-haired boss make it? was it outsourced to Elbonia?? either way, this is the WORST Dilbert calendar I can remember. As soon as I opened it I got excited to see everything in color. Then I actually looked at the first page, only to find Saturday and Sunday are now just one comic. Which means 52 less comics AND no extended Sunday comic. Then I noticed there is no daily extra on the back. There were days I enjoyed that as much the comic. And this was all before I even set the calendar on my desk. Believe it or not, it got worse. As soon as I put the calendar on the desk, it fell apart. So now I have a poor quality calendar with less comics and less info then last year. HUGE disappointment.

Last years calendar would have gotten 5 stars from me. This years has less comics and less extras. So I dropped it to 2-3 stars. However, when it fell apart before I could even rip the first comic off, that was the last straw. I would give it ZERO stars if I could! Whoever makes this better step up their game or I'll have to find myself another daily calendar.

The best part of the Dilbert Comic week is the extended Sunday comic and this year it is Deleted. I have been getting this for years, but this will be the last one unless they put Sunday back in

For several years I have kept theses calendars in my bathroom. Every morning I weigh myself, flip the calandar page to today's date, write down my weight, read the comic strip and throughout 2010, glance at the previous day's puzzle, joke or quotation. Imagine my disappointment this morning when I opened my new 2011 calandar to discover that today was SAT/SUN. I suppose I'll have to insert slashes between my weekend weighings in 2011 and forego the extended Sunday strip and the daily trivia. But you can be sure this will be the last year I use Andrews McMeel desktop calendars.

The front of the 2011 calendar has a cartoon on it where Dilbert says, "I want my unwarranted optimism back." I can't think of a better way of describing my reaction to this product.

I took it out of the box, lifted the cover and the pages of the calendar fell out. At least they fell out as one unit and not as individual pages, but that doesn't make it a whole lot better. The pages of the calendar are in no way connected to the backing. To display the calendar, I just have the "block" of pages sitting on the ledge of the plastic stand. I think this is going to work, but it's just shoddy workmanship.

This review refers to the 2011 Dilbert Calendar published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

I'm sure the actual cartoons will be as funny as ever. Scott Adams rocks.

This is the third year in a row that I have bought a Dilbert page-a-day calendar. I love the Dilbert comics and being able to wake up every day and read one in the morning is very enjoyable. It's always good to start your day with a smile. I loved the Dilbert calendars I used for the past couple years.

However this years calendar is beyond horrible. It looks like it was designed by a three year old and was then outsourced to China for printing and assembly. I will explain:

1. Craftsmanship - When I got the calendar in the mail, I took it out and tried to set it up. The cover and binder promptly fell off the calendar, it now has the glue backing that the pages are stuck to exposed on the top. Since the calendar attached to the plastic stand with sticky glue on the back cover, the calendar doesn't "stick" to the plastic stand anymore, since it only has the glue and pages left.

2. Where's Sunday? - For whatever illogical and inconceivable reason, they removed Sunday from the calendar. They combined the weekends into one page, so now you have pages for "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat/Sun". I can't understand why they did this. The whole reason I use page-a-day calendars is because I can never remember what the date or day of the week is. It is only through the habit of removing a page every morning that I have any clue what month/day/year I am living in. I'm serious. I don't keep track of time like other people do. So combining the weekends like this really throws me off.

3. The Font - The old Dilbert calendars had an easy to read font for the date and day of the week. They used a bold black font on a white background, something that everyone is accustomed to and can read easily. Now they have a thinner black font with a white highlight on a lime green background. It actually is harder to read, especially when you wake up in the morning. The obnoxious orange seal on the bottom right of every page with Scott Adams name only adds to the visual aggravation.

To conclude, the calendar is in almost every way horrible. I love the Dilbert strips, and the strips are the only enjoyable thing about this. I will be shopping around for another page-a-day calendar to use, and probably won't buy another Dilbert one. I think one of these days when I am bored I will go through and read all the strips in this one, and then throw it out.