Dilbert’s Telecommuting Adventure can be seen here on CNN.com
Here’s Dilbert’s creator on working at home @ CNN
Q: Can you talk about how long you’ve been working, how you came to be working at home and doing what you do?
A: In 1989, Dilbert was first published in newspapers, but I kept my job at Pacific Bell for about six years after that. So I guess I was working at home at the same time I was going to work in my office job. Obviously there’s not much options when you’re a cartoonist — you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier. And then after I quit my day job I just kept working at home.
Q: What is your work environment? When you sit down to do a cartoon, what’s your process?
A: The actual physical surroundings are: I’ve got a desk that looks like it could come out of any office, and I’ve got a large-screen computer that I use to do the art … I draw directly to the monitor. … So I don’t have anything in my office that looks like art whatsoever. I could look like a lawyer or accountant if you walked in here.
I start at 5 usually, 5 in the morning. I just walk across the street in my flip-flops and pet my cat for 10 minutes so she won’t bother me for the next few hours. There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours. So pet the cat, get a diet Coke, eat a banana and sit down and start writing my “Dilbert” blog — that takes usually from 5 till 7 in the morning. Then I do typically two cartoons. I do them in rough form and I’m usually done with those by 10 or 11. Then the rest of the day is whatever I have going on, which is typically contracts and paperwork and licensing and conference calls and taxes and administrative stuff. And sometimes I have time to finish up the cartoons I started in the morning. So I do all the creative stuff I do before noon usually.
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