An Open Letter to a Comic Strip Creator By Rex Curry, 6/13/2003 12:21:58 AM http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.print.aspx?21442dcc-ccf1-4b11-9d0c-3ad733a1008e
An open letter to Dilbert's Scott Adams (author of the "Dilbert" comic strip
and related books),
Please sell me the right to publish alternative versions of the
"Dilbert" books and comic strips, or let me encourage you to publish alternative
versions. As an attorney, and a libertarian, too, I see a lucrative market
for Dilbert via special editions that have an anti-government and pro-freedom
message in place of the present message (anti-business, anti-employer, anti-corporation,
anti-capitalistic and apparently pro-government regulation?). The "Dilbert" strips from 06-08-2003 and 11-30-2003 are perfect
examples. The 06/08/2003 strip shows how Dilbert would be better if the
word "management" were replaced with the word "politics" or "government."
Please review the 06/08/2003 strip with those improvements. Dilbert could
be improved in most cases with a simple computerized "find-and-replace" program
changing "buzz-words" such as "management" "business" and "corporation" and
replacing them with "politics," "bureaucracy" and "government." I recall the first time I read a Dilbert book and I laughed out
loud as I instinctively began to mentally alter the written "spin" and insert
an anti-government, pro-freedom message from front to back. I do the same
whenever I read any Dilbert strip or book. I never read Dilbert the way
it is written. Please publish special editions of Dilbert with government as the
butt of the jokes instead of free enterprise. Or let's work out a deal so
that Dilbert can be published in special editions. Dilbert would hit a new
market, massively inspire that new market, and probably become a legend among
people who prize freedom. Dilbert can ridicule government and give people
the courage to fight government. Dilbert might become a revolutionary hero,
change history, and restore America's libertarian heritage. No one should wonder if Dilbert is a Marxist goldbricker. Thanks. Rex Curry, Attorney At Law, Tampa, FL, can be reached at:
mailto:rexy@ij.net |
