It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone

by Scott Adams

Part of Dilbert, book 6

First published 1997

Scott Adams gathers almost two years of previously uncollected Dilbert comic strips from the 1990s corporate landscape. The author captures office life through Dilbert, an engineer trapped in cubicle culture where rational thinking meets its demise. Adams records the everyday insanity of companies obsessed with downsizing while logic crumbles around their employees. Dogbert, Dilbert's cynical canine companion, delivers biting commentary while scheming for world domination, powered by his philosophy that happiness comes from high hopes and tasty snacks. The book combines black and white weekday strips with colorful Sunday editions. Adams extracts humor from professional frustration, revealing the gap between management rhetoric and workplace reality. These comics speak to anyone who has endured meaningless meetings, survived incompetent supervisors, or battled the technology failures that define contemporary office life.

Genres: satire, humor, 20th-century, american, comics, workplace

Vibes: cynical, irreverent, observational, satirical, witty

Tropes: anthropomorphic-sidekick, institutional-critique, social-commentary

Period: 1990s

256 pages · Paperback · Boxtree

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