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Dilbert Groundloop
Dilbert Groundloop is a comic character conceived by Capt. Austin K. Doyle, USN and Lt. Cdr. Robert Osborn, USNR shortly after the Attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. An early aviator, he was used in training manuals, like Taxi Sense, and training posters for the United States Navy. Dilbert was specifically shown doing things that pilots shouldn't do with the terrible and comedic consequences of his actions illustrated for the benefit of future pilots. The Dilbert training materials received wide recognition by Navy personnel and others, due to Osborn's distinctive linear style. In popular culture He is the namesake of the popular comic strip ''Dilbert'' as well as its its titular character. The name was suggested by one of Adams’ coworkers while working at Pacific Bell The Pacific Bell Telephone Company (Pacific Bell or Pac Bell) is a telephone company that provides telephone service in California. The company is owned by AT&T through AT&T Teleholdings, and, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Osborn (satirist)
Robert Chesley Osborn (1904–1994) was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author. Pre-World War II career Osborn was born October 26, 1904, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He witnessed a fatal aviation crash in June 1916 of Charles Franklin Niles. He entered the University of Wisconsin in 1923, then transferred to Yale in 1923. At Yale, together with Dwight Macdonald, Wilder Hobson, Geoffrey T. Hellman, and Jack Jessup, Osborn helped publish campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record'' and was accepted into Yale's Elizabethan Club. After graduating from Yale in 1928, he studied painting in Rome and Paris, then returned to the U.S. and began teaching art and philosophy at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. He found breaking into the ranks of serious artists difficult, and he soon turned to caricature, sometime after suffering from a perforated ulcer while at his fifth year of teaching at The Hotchkiss School. Osborn was in Austria in 1938, working as a tutor, when he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |