Charlos Gary

Charlos Gary (born September 14, 1968) is an African-American cartoonist and comic strip author, best known for creating a series entitled Working It Out, a strip that deals with office politics in a format similar to Dilbert.

In early 2001, as an editorial artist for the Chicago Tribune, Gary created his signature strip Working It Out.

As of March 2004, Working It Out currently runs in about 50 newspapers across the United States, typically in the business and financial sections.

Charlos Gary has published two comic strips and a web log; he published his first book in 2006. His two comic strips, Working It Out (2001 to present) and Café Con Leche (2007-2014), are syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

In 2006, Gary published his Working It Out comics in a book titled It's Always a Great Day to Be the Boss.

The comic strip centers around a character named "Mr. Jamison" – a bushy-moustached, pencil-nosed low-level manager who seems to take delight in the suffering and mistreatment of his subordinates. Mr. Jamison frequently goes on a “power trip” over the most trivial of issues and often refers to his employees as “peons”. The overall theme is a workplace tug-of-war that pits the weasel-like management staff against the water-cooler backstabbing of their hard(-ly) working, expendable employees.

Gary launched his newly syndicated comic strip, called Café Con Leche, in April 2007. Café Con Leche is about an interracial couple getting to know each other's cultural background. The strip ended November 2, 2014.