Comics like Dilbert (that are still being published)

For 34 years, Dilbert was how office workers processed the pointy-haired absurdity of their jobs. Then it left the newspapers in 2023, went behind a subscription paywall as "Dilbert Reborn," and ended for good when Scott Adams died in January 2026. There's no free official archive. If you've got a Dilbert-shaped hole in your morning, these are the strips that can actually fill it – every one checked and publishing as of July 2026.

The successors

Work Chronicles

The most direct heir. Anonymous creator, minimalist art, and premises Dilbert readers will recognize on sight: the meeting that should have been an email, the manager discovering the deadline he set, the layoff announced with a slide template. Publishing steadily on Substack – three strips the week we checked.

Mid – the one we make

Dilbert was about surviving a big dumb company; Mid is about building a small dumb one. It's a satirical strip set inside Synthetica, an over-funded AI startup where the CEO announces products that don't exist, the engineer quietly ships them anyway, and the intern is the only adult in the building. If your pointy-haired boss now says "agentic," start with the latest strip and see if it's your thing.

Bonkers World

Manu Cornet drew the single most Dilbert-worthy image of the modern tech industry – the org-chart comic with Amazon's tree and Google's spaghetti – from inside Google and Twitter, where he actually worked. Strips arrive in occasional bursts (most recently January 2026), and the archive is essential.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Zach Weinersmith publishes daily, and a solid third of it is workplace and economics material sharp enough to pin to a cubicle wall, which is the historical unit of Dilbert impact. Broader than office life, but it scratches the same itch: systems behaving stupidly for legible reasons.

xkcd

Less about managers, more about the people who report to them. Twenty years in, still three strips a week, and still the most-quoted comic in any engineering Slack. If Dilbert was the boss's comic to hate, xkcd is the IC's comic to live by.

The Joy of Tech

Running since 1999 and still going 2–3 times a week: topical strips about the tech industry's news cycle, from keynote theater to billionaire drama. The closest thing to opening the business section and finding the comic that gets it.

Gone but not forgotten

Older "Dilbert alternative" lists will send you to CommitStrip (no strips since 2024; the site was down when we checked), MonkeyUser (dormant since early 2025), turnoff.us (dormant since January 2025), or Comic Agilé (dormant since mid-2025). All have archives worth a rainy afternoon; none will give you a new strip with your coffee.

Why trust this list

Because we checked. Every "still publishing" claim above comes from reading each strip's feed or archive in July 2026, not from recycling a 2021 listicle. And yes, we put our own comic on the list – we make Mid, we think it belongs here, and we'd rather say that plainly than pretend to be neutral. The other five entries have no connection to us; they're just good.