A media backlash against the Dilbert comic strip took hold in Canada on Monday as several of the country's biggest newspapers announced they were dropping the office-set cartoon over recent remarks by its creator.
The Toronto Star published a note in Monday's edition stating the strip will no longer appear in its weekend comic section because “recent racist comments by the cartoonist, Scott Adams, are not in line with the Star's journalistic standards.”
Meanwhile, Postmedia, whose brands include several Sun papers across the country, said it decided over the weekend "to discontinue Dilbert effective immediately, for the reasons you’ve seen many other organizations in North America take similar actions." "We also on the weekend instructed our third party provider to remove Dilbert from our digital comics packages as soon as possible. This applies to all Postmedia properties."Several media publishers across the United States have cancelled the strip and denounced Adams for sharing comments last week deemed racist, hateful and discriminatory. Adams' distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, also dropped him.
On Monday, Adams tweeted that the backlash had widened to include publishing deals that don't involve Dilbert, a long-running comic that pokes fun at office-place culture.This is not the first time Adams has drawn attention for his comments about race.
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