When the only outlet for Dilbert is Scott’s own website he’s going to have a daily audience of dim deplorables to milk and rally. And, of course, the strip itself will become even more tailored to a like minded audience. This whole flame out might not be the financial suicide we think it is.
Feeding racists and right wing crazies is often remunerative. The question is, can you live with yourself, and since he’s of like mind, the answer is yes.
Adams reacted to the new backlash on Twitter, saying he’d been cancelled. Nearly 18 minutes into his YouTube show Saturday, he predicted, "Most of my income will be gone by next week … My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right? "
Basically suicide by mod. You can’t replace that kind of income from a few fanatics online.
Income isn’t the same as wealth. Trying to find hard info on comic strips is futile, but from scraps I’ve seen over the years, $100/week for a top strip would be low. That’s $5,000 a year. At Dilbert’s peak in 2013 he ran in 2000 papers. That plus the millions of books sold should mean he can retire today and live well the rest of his life, unless he invested it all in Bitcoin.
He goes out with a CANCELLED tag that will allow him to charge the equivalent of a year’s worth of strips in a paper for a single talk before a right-wing crowd. Not a bad trade off. Nobody but suckers should feel bad for him. The sucker economy is too huge.
Yup, that’s it exactly. Suicide. The person who ended Scott Adams’ career is Scott Adams, and so he has no grounds for any complaint.
Scott Adams is going to be just fine.
Boy, did Adams ever add some new information to this thread. My goodness.
Sure, in the sense that he doubtless has all the money. His cartoons won’t sell to many papers anymore and I think his speaking engagements will be rather limited to GOP stuff.
Today the Chicago Tribune joined in.
Made me think of the thread elsewhere asking whether you could enjoy content created by a despicable person. I’ve long known that SA is a jerk, but Dilbert has offered amusement more frequently than the majority of other comics.
He’s been dropped by his distributor.
I know a few editorial cartoonists have made comment in their strips about Adams’ self destruction, but have any of the daily funny pages cartoonists said anything yet? (Not in their strips but in the media, social or otherwise) They’re a rather small and tight-knit group and rather prickly about being called out for their perceived politics.
Here are some.