The Dilbert cartoon strip was launched in 1989 and caught fire in the 1990s. For many downtrodden office workers, posting a Dilbert cartoon in their cubicle became a tiny flag of independence.

But Scott Adams also did many of the best political cartoons in the nation for more than a third of a century. Adams left almost no Washington sacred cow unkicked. A 2012 cartoon caricatured the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund with the International Bank for Bailing Out Countries That Are Bad At Math. A Third World despot clamoring for a handout complains, "Our Treasury is empty and we're not sure why." Actually, Congress has had the same problem for almost 25 straight years. Congress also perennially bankrolled the World Bank and the IMF even though those agencies refused to disclose how they were squandering U.S. tax dollars.