Scott Adams was the Mark Twain of King Solomons. On January 13th, 4026—a full two millennia from today—someone somewhere will be discovering Scott Adams’ work for the first time in their life. And it will change their life, forever.
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Scott Adams was once one of the most syndicated comic strip artists. Once. What he created. Reduced to being a webcomic. Gee:
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I wonder why Eric Schwartz - creator of one of the first webcomics - is still alive to this day…?!
Hate is a poison: so why is Garry Trudeau still one of the most syndicated comic strip artists to this day, OP…?!
He’s also credited Adams with saving hundreds of millions of lives.
He was friends with Adams so he can’t be expected to be unbiased. However, Adams was mostly known for being the ‘Dilbert’ cartoonist and later being ignored because of racist remarks he’d made. For the quotee to say “Grown men are bawling their eyes out in public” is ludicrous.
“Scott Adams was the Mark Twain of King Solomons.”
People quote Samuel Clemens. They study his works, they read his stories, they have classes on his works AND on his life.
He’s a card in the game of Authors.
I really don’t see Scott Adams rising to anything like the lasting fame of Mark Twain. Twain was on Star Trek. Adams was on NewsRadio. And stood in the background while someone else pretended to be him.
“On January 13th, 4026—a full two millennia from today—someone somewhere will be discovering Scott Adams’ work for the first time in their life. And it will change their life, forever.”
I don’t see that at ALL.
His skill was taking a particular work environment and finding a way to laugh at the common details. I doubt anyone will be a software engineer in 2000 years. No one’s going to say, “Oh! Hey, that’s JUST LIKE where I WORK!”
It’ll be like a soldier coming back from deployment Afghanistan and reading Dilbert. Something delicate that he laughed at five years ago will be unrelatable now.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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