The Dilbert Blog

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has started his own blog, which, now that I think about it, makes me wonder why it took so long. Anyway, yesterday's entry shared a strip that didn't see print as planned:

Did you happen to see my comic on 8-4-05 that featured Dogbert as a police negotiator? When I first submitted it to my editor at United Media, it showed a cop shooting an unarmed suspect who had just surrendered.

The problem is that there’s an unwritten rule in newspaper comics that you can’t show a gun being fired. I knew that, but my editor was new on the job and I thought it was the perfect time to try and slip one through. But his alert assistant thwarted my plan and brought it to the attention of an informal committee of executives to decide how to handle it. The group ruled that the gun could not be shown. The concept of a peace officer gunning down an unarmed suspect was okay, but I couldn’t show the actual gun firing.

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