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See You In The Funny Pages

By Jill Hamburg Coplan

Dave Steward, 50, lost his job at the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, last fall after surveillance cameras caught him sticking up a Dilbert cartoon that compared managers to “drunken lemurs.” So the strip’s creator, Scott Adams, has posted Steward’s résumé on his blog (dilbertblog.typepad.com) to help out the longtime security guard. It’s the first documented case of Dilbert as grounds for dismissal, according to Adams, who last month recapped Steward’s story in his Dilbert comic strip—­using Wally, a regular character, as the fired employee.

Catfish Bend Casino says it “doesn’t comment about personnel matters,” citing “the privacy of the person involved.” Meanwhile, Steward’s posted résumé has drawn two interview offers. Both, however, involve work located far from his home in Fort Madison, Iowa, where his wife has a good job. He’s open to other lines of work, he says, adding that two Dilbert blog readers have pitched in by polishing his résumé. “I got it all set up,” he says.