Cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, has died at the age of 68 after battling prostate cancer. His former wife announced the news on his show, following Adams' earlier health updates revealing his terminal condition.
Cartoonist Scott Adams has died following a battle with prostate cancer at the age of 68. His former wife announced the news on his show Tuesday morning."He’s not with us anymore," Shelly Miles told listeners.
Earlier this month, Adams shared a health update on his podcast "Real Coffee with Scott Adams.""I talked to my radiologist yesterday, and it’s all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero," he said. "I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.""So there’s no chance that I’ll get my feeling back in my legs, and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day," the cartoonist continued. "However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another."Last May, Adams revealed that he was suffering from prostate cancer – the same cancer that former President Joe Biden announced that he was diagnosed with.Adams announced the diagnosis on his YouTube channel, stating, "I decide that today’s the day that I’m going to take the opportunity, since a lot of you are here, to make an announcement of my own… I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has.RELATED: 'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams reveals cancer diagnosisThe comic strip icon said, like Biden, he had prostate cancer "that has also spread to my bones."He heartbreakingly revealed that he anticipated he would live to "sometime this summer." "I’m in pain, I’m always in pain," Adams added. Adams rose to fame in the 1900s for his comic strip "Dilbert," an award-winning satire that poked fun at office culture.It ran for decades and appeared in some 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries before Adams' controversial comments about race prompted its widespread cancellation in 2023.In the February 2023 episode of his YouTube show, Adams described people who are Black as members of "a hate group" from which white people should "get away." RELATED: Dilbert distributor cuts ties to creator over race commentsVarious media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work.The editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which dumped "Dilbert," said the comic strip "went from being hilarious to being hurtful and mean."Over the years, Adams has written several novels and nonfiction books unrelated to Dilbert and weighs in on social and political events on his long-running YouTube program, which has about 174,000 subscribers.
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