The cartoonist was diagnosed with cancer last year and his ex-wife delivered a message sent ‘from the grave’ as she announced his death on his YouTube channel
Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams has died aged 68 after a battle with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The American cartoonist revealed in a video just days before his death that doctors told him his chances of him recovering were “essentially zero” and warned viewers to “prepare” themselves.
Adams, who published his first Dilbert comic strip in 1969, had been receiving hospice care at his Northern California, and on Tuesday Januray 13, his ex-wife Shelly Miles broke the news that “he is not with us any more” during a livestream on the Real Coffee With Scott Adams YouTube channel.
Reading a letter written by Adams before he passed, she said: “If you are reading this, things did not go well for me. I have a few things to say before I go. My body failed before my brain, I am of sound mind as I write this January 1, 2026.”
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She continued, “If you wonder about any of my choices for my estate or anything else please know I’m free of any inappropriate influence of any sort, I promise. Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I am not a believer, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me.”
New Yorker Adams announced in May last year that he had aggressive prostate cancer, and said at the time he expected he only had a few months to live. He revealed late last year on X that his health was “declining fast”, and he was facing issues with his medications. President Trump – of whom Adams was a long-time supporter – wrote a post on his own social media channel, telling the cartoonist he was “on it”.
At the height of his Dilbert success, Adams’ cartoon strip was syndicated in around 2,000 newspapers around the world but as the cartoonist “made remarks about women and Jews that brought him negative attention outside the silo of beloved cartoonist”, its appeal dwindled.
It was then dropped by many publications in February 2023 after Adams said on a podcast “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they are a “hate group”, during a discussion about a new poll in America.
In a video streamed on his YouTube channel on January 1 this year, Adams warned his viewers that the month would be “a month of transition, one way or the other”, after receiving bad news from his doctors.
“I’ll give you a little bit of a head’s up,” he said. “I talked to my radiologist yesterday, he was working on the day before New Year’s, and it’s all bad news. The odds of me recovering are essentially zero so I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.
“So there’s no chance I’ll get my feeling back in my legs, and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure which is making it difficult to breath sometimes during the day. But at the moment I can breathe and I’m not in any pain.”
Source: Mirror
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