The creator of Dilbert is dead. Adams died of prostate cancer at 68 years old.
Adams and I were about the same age and I will say, over the years I found his Dilbert comics hilarious. The adventures of the well-meaning but socially hopeless engineer Dilbert and his circle of corporate stereotypes was deadly accurate throughout the 1990s and into the new millennia. The pointy haired boss that ordered Dilbert to print out two copies of the internet for him every morning. The female engineer Alice with a permanent Karen personality. Wally the worm. Dogbert the megalomaniac and Catbert the evil HR boss. And many more.
Adams kept us laughing all the way through the defenestration of American corporate health and made it all the way to Donald Trump’s first White House victory, which he supported, before falling afoul of the leftist censors. Some blunt statements about the danger of living in proximity to inner city denizens caused all of the newspapers that ran his strips to drop him from their pages.
I listened to several of Adams’ podcasts over the years and they were relatively mild. I’m guessing that he had already cashed out of his Dilbert career already. After all, how many years can the pointy haired boss run a corporation without putting it out of business. So, I’m sure Scott looked back on his career with satisfaction.
I don’t think there is any great message in this post I just thought the passing of a man who made many Americans of my generation laugh should be given a decent salute
Farewell Scott Adams. You will be missed.