Launched in 1989, the cartoon creation of former engineer Scott Adams emerged as the "everyman" of the corporate office in the 1990s. Adams-, who did not know a thing about cartooning, bought a book on how to draw and then started sending his ideas out. His hapless Dilbert, the bespectacled nebbish "cubicle slave," symbolized much of what was wrong with business in America and soon struck a chord with readers everywhere. Unable to control his tie—much less his boss—Dilbert, along with Adams's other characters, dutifully endures meaningless initiatives, silly mission statements, and out-of-touch managers. Although it got off to a slow start, Dilbert eventually found its audience, mostly among young males aged twelve to thirty, and by the end of the decade appeared in more than seventeen hundred newspapers in fifty-one countries. The success of the comic strip was also translated into...