Dilbert - A Treasury Of Sunday Strips: Version 00 [Paperback]

Scott Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2000 | Series: Dilbert Books (Paperback Andrews McMeel)

Everyone who's in business, works for a business, or even just gives others the business is amazed: Scott Adams never lacks for yet another way to lampoon the corporate world. It's not that Adams is anti-business. He's more anti-bad boss than anything. But poor management practices, the effects of bad decisions, and what it all means for the average worker add up to more comedic material than even the man who created Dilbert can tame.

Since Dilbert was first syndicated in 1989, Adams has built a following that would be the envy of any corporate sales and marketing team. His work not only generates howls from readers as they rush to plaster it on lunch-room refrigerators and scan it into interoffice e-mails, it has those same fans reading about "their" workplaces every Sunday in a multiple-panel, color format. And that's what this treasury, The Collected Dilbert Sundays, provides. This collection offers yet another glimpse into the zany life of Dilbert, Dogbert, Ratbert, and the rest of the crazy cube crew through the masterpiece Sunday comics. Here's even more of the great Adams's irony, sarcasm, and satire that so many have come to depend upon to cope with the corporate workplace. The Collected Dilbert Sundays humorously continues the tradition of poking fun at the world of business from which we all seek to temporarily escape.

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About the Author

Scott Adams was born in Windham, NY, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1979. Scott has won multiple National Cartoonists Society Awards, and the Dilbert strip has received a Harvey Award and won the Max and Moritz Prize as best international comic strip.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740705318
• ISBN-13: 978-0740705311
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

What started as a doodle has turned Scott Adams into a superstar of the cartoon world. Dilbert debuted on the comics page in 1989 while Adams was in the tech department at Pacific Bell. Adams continued to work at Pacific Bell until he was voluntarily downsized in 1995. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay area since 1979.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dilbert - A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 by S.Adams, August 18, 2001

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This review is from: Dilbert - A Treasury Of Sunday Strips: Version 00 (Paperback)

#16 of a series of Dilbert Books; this 224 page paperback book contains all the Sunday comics strips from 1995 to 1999. All the comics in this book are in color. If you want all the Dilbert Sunday comics in one book, this is it. Nice compilation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humorous Compilation of Sunday Strips, September 17, 2001

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This review is from: Dilbert - A Treasury Of Sunday Strips: Version 00 (Paperback)

This book has five years worth of Sunday comics, bursting with wildly funny office humor. In my opinion, the Dilbert Sunday comics may be the best of Scott Adams's work. From Dogbert and Wally's sarcasm to the boss's stupidity, it all balances out with perfectly hysterical comics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An antidote to the poisons of business culture, March 11, 2001

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This review is from: Dilbert - A Treasury Of Sunday Strips: Version 00 (Paperback)

While all cartoons are entertaining, a select few reach the level of psychiatric therapy. Dilbert is an example of such a strip, providing us with comic relief as we face our troubles. Some situations are so absurdly impossible that the only possible coping mechanism is to laugh at the situation.
The modern business culture is a complex entity, often dysfunctional and operating at breakneck speed. Many of these dysfunctional traits are parodied in this strip, exaggerated for emphasis, but not by much. This collection of strips is a laugh/cry dichotomy where all of us will recognize some of the situations as events in our working lives.
Humor is one of the most powerful forces in the human psyche, sometimes it is the only antidote to the poisons of life. If you are looking for one of the larger does of this effective medicine, read this book.