Scott Adams obit

Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Political Commentator, Dead at 68

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Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Political Commentator, Dead at 68

Scott Adams, the legendary creator of the comic strip Dilbert and a widely respected and beloved political commentator, died Tuesday at the age of 68.

Adams had been publicly fighting a metastasized form of prostate cancer. Early reports indicate that the day before his passing, the former atheist converted to Christianity.

Adams announced earlier this month that any hope for remission was gone, and he expected to die sometime in January. Until last week, he continued to do his popular online podcast.

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” has died after being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. The cartoonist’s former wife, Shelly Miles, announced his death in a livestream on X on Tuesday morning, reading a statement Adams had prepared for her on Jan. 1.

“I had an amazing life,” the statement read, in part. “I gave it everything I had.”

In November, Adams issued a plea for President Trump to “help save his life” after the cartoonist said his health care provider, Kaiser Permanente, “dropped the ball” in scheduling treatment of a newly FDA-approved drug for the disease.

“He offered to help me if I needed it,” Adams wrote on X. “I need it.”

“I am declining fast,” the cartoonist continued. “I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it … That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.”

In May, Adams announced that he had an aggressive form of metastatic prostate cancer after former President Joe Biden’s office announced he had been diagnosed with the same disease.

“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said on “Real Coffee With Scott Adams,” his YouTube show. “I also have prostate cancer that has spread to my bones.”

Adams, a Trump supporter, said he tried to avoid public out of fear he’d become “just the dying cancer guy.” But he decided to speak after Biden revealed his own diagnosis.

“I’d like to extend my respect and compassion for the ex-president and his family because they’re going through an especially tough time,” he said. “It’s a terrible disease.”

“Dilbert” was first published in 1989, and the syndicated comic strip ran for decades in thousands newspapers across the country.