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Zap-pow! Web 2.0 and user-generated content have hit comic strips.
Bitstrips made waves at South by Southwest last month with its launch of a cartoon-building website that makes creating your own strip easy.
Now the internet-savvy Scott Adams has launched Dilbert 2.0, an online version of his strip that allows readers to change the punchline.
My Dilbert, where fans will be able to rewrite the whole strip, will follow in May, along with Group Mash, which allows users to collaborate and write different panels together.
The cartoonist already allows readers to search, rank, comment on and receive RSS feeds of his strips. He aims to work with his audience by authoring random frames and seeing if groups can successfully develop strips.
It sounds like the kind of spirit and teamwork that is singularly lacking in Dilbert’s fictional world and something that Catbert, Evil Director of Human Resources, would never allow.
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