Dilbert: That Lost 4G Phone

“Two questions I am often asked:

1. How far in advance do you work?
2. How quickly can you publish a comic on a current event?

“Today I will indirectly answer both questions by talking about
something else entirely. I assume you’ve all been following the
story of the Apple engineer who left a prototype 4G iPhone at a
beer garden. I found this story too delicious to resist, but I
worried that the story would become stale before my comics would
work through the pipeline. I think the soonest I can get something
published is in about a month, perhaps a bit sooner, but I’ve never
tested it.

“I drew two comics while considering my options. In the end, I
thought it wasn’t worth the extra friction to push them to the
front of the line. And it would be June 18th before they ran in
their normal position, which seemed too far in the future. So here
now, exclusively for you blog readers, the totally unfinished first
drafts of those comics. You will never see these in
newspapers.”

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