Scott Adams

Scott Raymond Adams was born on June 8, 1957, and died on January 13, 2026, at age 68. He is best known as the creator of the long-running comic strip *Dilbert*, which he launched in 1989 while still working corporate jobs. Adams didn't become a full-time cartoonist until 1995, but by then *Dilbert* had already become a national phenomenon in the United States, eventually reaching a global audience and spawning numerous books he wrote himself. His work offered satirical commentary on the social and psychological lives of white-collar office workers. Beyond the strip, Adams wrote nonfiction on business, self-improvement, and politics, as well as the spiritual novella *God's Debris* (2001) and *Loserthink* (2019). In the mid-2010s, he began producing independent political commentary. In February 2023, *Dilbert* was dropped by many newspapers and its syndicator after Adams made racist comments on his YouTube channel, which he defended as hyperbole; he relaunched the strip as a webcomic a month later. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2025, Adams retired from drawing that year but continued writing *Dilbert* until his death. He was also credited on 58 comic issues, including early work on *Questprobe* and various *Dilbert* collections.