Does Today’s Dilbert Look Familiar?
September 17th, 2007
Did anyone else notice a striking resemblance between today’s Dilbert and our Marketing 101 comic? I’m not accusing Scott Adams of plagiarism or anything (we’re not nearly popular enough for that), but it’s amazing how similar they are. It’s not just the same concept, it’s also the ‘hot product’ joke that gets me. Personally, I think he should have switched the order of the jokes though to make the ‘hot’ joke last (like we did) as I felt it was the best final punchline. So my faithful readers, I have a question:
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To be fair, Scott Adams writes his comics months in advance and it is a pretty obvious joke.
I’m sure I’ve seen skits on this joke on TV for example.
His is funnier, because of the characters. Dogbert for prez
Yeah, like I said, I know he didn’t copy our comic, it’s just a funny coincidence. And I agree, marketing is a subject one could write thousands of comics on.
heh, I subscribe to a Dilbert RSS feed, and thought exactly the same thing when it came out the other day even before this blog post came out.
But yeah, as already mentioned, Dilbert cartoons are written very far in advance.
I always felt our “Marketing 101″ comic was just like a Frank & Ernest comic.
Definitely Marketing 101.
By far. That was brilliant.
To be fair he did write this months in advance and he also talked on his blog about it:
here
That post is about yesterday’s comic and the post’s date is July 8th.
I’ve read Dilbert in the past and he’s had many similar comics to this one. This wasn’t new, or inventive.
Its like claiming someone mimicked you because they told a knock,knock joke 2 days after you did.
larry, good thing I didn’t claim he used our joke and only pointed out that it was a coincidence!