"Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and a major supporter of Donald Trump, has died at age 68. Dilbert was once popular for satirizing corporate life - incompetent bosses, promotions without raises, and absurd policies. But his strip was dropped by many leading newspapers in 2023 because of racist comments he made on his YouTube show. He sometimes dealt in misogyny, transphobia, and anti-Semitism as well."
"Adams worked as a teller and in managerial positions at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco and an engineer at Pacific Bell, jobs that gave him material for Dilbert. At Crocker, he passed the time in "dull meetings" by drawing caricatures of his colleagues, who shared them by facsimile, The New York Times reports. He once sent his supervisor a memo on how to improve the bank's operations, and that got him into a management training program."
"Two years later, he sent samples of Dilbert to newspaper syndicates, and United Feature Syndicate picked up the strip in 1989, initially distributing it to 35 papers. He left Pac Bell in 1995 to devote full time to his cartoon, which was eventually carried by about 2,000 newspapers. He went on to publish Dilbert collections and business books, and there were Dilbert tie-in products and an animated TV series."
Scott Adams died at age 68 at his home in Pleasanton, California after revealing he had metastatic prostate cancer. He gained fame creating Dilbert, a strip satirizing corporate life, with characters such as the frustrated engineer Dilbert and his scheming pet Dogbert. Adams worked at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell, earned an MBA from UC Berkeley in 1986, and launched Dilbert in syndication in 1989, later leaving Pac Bell in 1995 as the strip reached roughly 2,000 newspapers and spawned books, tie-ins, and an animated series. The strip's distribution declined after 2023 amid backlash over racist, misogynistic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic comments.
Read at Advocate.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]