It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It
For P.N.O., of course
Introduction
People always ask me which one of my books is the best. It’s hard for me to say because I loathe 90% of everything I’ve ever produced. The good news is that I’ve made so many comics that the 10% I love are enough to fill this treasury.
I handpicked every comic in here, according to a fuzzy, ever-shifting sense of what my best work has been in recent years. Mostly I picked the ones that make me laugh out loud despite seeing them a zillion times. There’s no guarantee that my favorites will be your favorites, but it seemed a reasonable place to start.
I also included comics that make me proud for some reason, e.g. they’re naughty or they offended lots of people. You might not think that those are sources of pride, but I have discovered that maintaining low standards for myself is a good formula for happiness.
You’ll see my handwritten comments throughout the book. They’re the sorts of things I might have said if you were reading the comics in front of me and I felt compelled to ruin your experience by talking while you did it. It works best if you read the comic first and then the comment.
If you want to become a cartoonist yourself, you’ll see lots of patterns and tips in here that could be useful. There’s some risk that by revealing my secrets, a thousand people will become cartoonists and push me off the comic pages, and then my business manager would confess that he has stolen all my money, and then I would end up living in my car and selling my blood to buy crack. However, I think the chances of that are slim because I don’t have a business manager.
Scott Adams
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What started as a doodle has turned Scott Adams into a superstar of the cartoon world. Dilbert debuted on the comics page in 1989, while Adams was in the tech department at Pacific Bell. Adams continued to work at Pacific Bell until he was voluntarily downsized in 1995. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay area since 1979.
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