Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68

[SVPete]

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BumRushDaShow (165,973 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 10:49 AM

Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68
Source: Washington Post

January 13, 2026 at 10:37 a.m. EST

Scott Adams, who became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers as the creator of the satirical comic strip “Dilbert,” only to rebrand himself as a digital provocateur — at home in the Trump era’s right-wing mediasphere — with inflammatory comments about race, politics and identity, died Jan. 13. He was 68.

His former wife Shelly Miles announced his death in a live stream Tuesday morning, reading a statement she said Mr. Adams had prepared before his death. “I had an amazing life,” the statement said in part. “I gave it everything I had.”
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/01/13/scott-adams-dead-dilbert/

QueerDuck (1,053 posts)
1. Meh... he was MAGA, wasn't he? No big loss.
Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 10:54 AM

bearsfootball516 (6,683 posts)
2. Extremely. Very far right.
Reply to QueerDuck (Reply #1)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 10:55 AM
No tears shed over here.

Actually, Adams was more libertarian than conservative.

dalton99a (92,239 posts)
5. Safe in the arms of the blond blue-eyed Jesus and away from the dark-skinned folks
Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:02 AM

Ray Bruns (5,997 posts)
6. I have never wished someone dead, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:12 AM

grockri (70 posts)
7. He will not be missed.
Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:12 AM
Trumpian asshole. The world is a better place.

DU being DU

[Airwolf]

Bunch of pond scum over at the DUmp.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Bunch of pond scum over at the DUmp.

People magazine is worse, and so is Reddit.

Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68

Scott Adams has died at the age of 68. Adams first published Dilbert, a comic strip that satirized life in white-collar offices, in 1989. The comic strip became ubiquitous in the 1990s. Dilbert was pulled from wide circulation, however, after Adams degraded Black people in a 2023 rant.

https://people.com/scott-adams-dead-dilbert-creator-was-68-11882012

He didn't degrade black folks, it was very nuanced what he said. Leftists don't understand nuance.

[SVPete]

People magazine is worse, and so is Reddit.

Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68

https://people.com/scott-adams-dead-dilbert-creator-was-68-11882012

He didn't degrade black folks, it was very nuanced what he said. Leftists don't understand nuance.

There probably are a couple (or more) of poutrage threads on DU parroting misconstructions of what Adams said. It was something along the lines of, if black people really hate whites so much, it would be better for them to live apart. Well, yeah. Continuing to live among/around people who HATE you probably is not exactly prudent and wise.

[FlippyDoo]

Stay classy DU. Keep showing that "compassion".