Reinventing Dilbert
By Erik Hagen • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Comics, General Sod
As someone who spends most of his waking life reading other people’s blogs in search of ideas that I can steal inspiration, I happened to notice that one of the current trends in blogging is to take the copyrighted work of newspaper cartoonists, deface their work, and somehow profit from it. Some of the best examples of this booming new genre of comic improvement include Garfield Minus Garfield, Marmaduke Explained, The Nietzsche Family Circus, and this spiffy little creation that, for some reason, makes me giggle so long it hurts my intestines.
It’s like I want to stop laughing, but somehow I am unable to do so.
Anyway, being long on aspiration but short on talent, I of course wanted in on this racket. So I needed a comic that wasn’t already being plagiarized, and some means of defacing said comic strip in a convenient manner. Fortunately for me, Scott Adams was able to provide me with both.
Scott Adams, if you didn’t already know, is the cartoonist of Dilbert, a comic centered on the wacky day-to-day hilarity involved in the modern American office workplace, not unlike The Office, Office Space, and your own tragic, not-at-all-funny personal existence. And on the official Dilbert website (ironically enough, located at http://www.dilbert.com), one of the features is the ability to add your own punchline to recent Dilbert strips. So that’s what I did all day, and for your perusing pleasure, gentle reader, I now present my original creations. Please let me know if you like them or not, so I know if I should print them into greeting cards and charge you for them.
So I’m a genius, right? Go on, you can tell me. I love being told how smart I am.
Erik Hagen is comprised of equal parts X and Y chromosomes, snips, snails, puppy dog tails, and a whole lot of water. He was born into this world covered in blood, naked, and slightly hysterical. Very little has changed since.
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Some literal LOLs there Erik–the best one is #2 IMO… It’s funny cause it’s true
You’re a genius.
Erik, you are a genius. I didn’t think there was any way that Dilbert could ever be funnier but you’ve done it. I think you have found a new profession. Imagine where you can take this awesome skill. You could be famous. Now that I’m done sucking up, when do I get my raise? LOL
Some of those are pretty witty actually, but that Garfield one where he transforms Jon’s face is pretty old.
Still, if you make a lot of those, then it’s Digg material, and Digg means bandwidth excee- er… visitors to your blog.
Ha! I really enjoyed these Dilbert Mash-Ups. Of course, that means my own sense of humor is pretty warped, which isn’t too surprising since I grew up watching Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, and the Today show when Deborah Norville was briefly there and I used to daydream that she was barely dressed.
Oh, and I also think that Doonesbury’s Uncle Duke is hilarious. More so than the floating war helmet that represents Dubya!
Hey! It is really an idea of the genius. I like it very much! It is absolutely splendid and original thing! I like your humor very much and it is true that you could be famous. And it can be the new profession. I shall try this also but I doubt that I can do the same successful thing as you are.