For us in retail or who were in retail, we now have our own "Dilbert."

[Archae]

I hope our local paper carries this one.

Panel by Comic Panel, a Retail Clerk Exacts His Revenge

By MICHAEL BARBARO

Revenge comes in many forms. For Norm Feuti, it is a comic strip.

After a 15-year career in retailing, where he says he endured everything from bare fungus-infected feet at a shoe store to rude, know-it-all parents at an educational toy chain, Mr. Feuti will begin recounting the ups and downs - mostly the downs - in newspapers across the country.

His aim for the comic strip, which will be published beginning tomorrow, is to do for the mall what "Dilbert" did for the office, revealing the dysfunctional world of bickering employees, spineless managers and cruel shoppers that lurks behind the cheery sales slogans.

There is plenty of shopping in the annals of American comics - Blondie is prone to buying binges and Cathy is endlessly searching for a flattering wardrobe - but as far as anyone can tell, Mr. Feuti's strip is the first focused exclusively on the retail industry. (It is named, appropriately enough, "Retail.")

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/business/media/31comic.html