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Article: "Dilbert" retells story of Iowan fired over comic

Feb 20, 2008 Latest News | Notify

From DesMoinesRegister.com: "Dilbert retells story of Iowan fired over comic

Author: Clark Kauffman, 2/20/08

Is it a case of art imitating life, or life imitating art?

"Dilbert," the newspaper comic that routinely ridicules self-important office managers, is taking aim this week at an Iowa company that fired an employee for posting a "Dilbert" strip in the office.

In a bit of self-referential cartooning, "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams has penned a series of strips that indirectly describe the plight of Dave Steward, a former security supervisor for Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington. Steward, 50, a resident of Fort Madison, was fired by the casino last fall after seven years of employment. He had posted on an office bulletin board a "Dilbert" strip in which the protagonist compares his bosses to a bunch of "drunken lemurs..." (Click for full article.)