People Magazine:

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.

Adams was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2025.

I was an early Dilbert reader. The strip was a mainstay at work. One of the first two books I bought on Amazon.com (in 1998) was The Dilbert Principle (a gift for my mom). I read God’s Debris at the suggestion of a friend and found it compelling if confusing. At some point I bought a Dilbert mug.

Yes, I was a fan.

This, despite having long recognized Adams as a bigot. He claimed he was denied promotions because he was white, while “less-qualified” Black people were promoted above him, despite admitting he was woefully unqualified for the job—and white people were getting promoted, just not him.

But sometime in 2015, 2016, Adams went completely ’round the bend, with his “Donald Trump is a master persuader” BS, his full-throated endorsement of Trump, and a marked shift toward verbalizing his “anti-woke” ideology on his podcast and Twitter. Oh, and Dilbert stopped being funny. It got worse after Trump won the election, and came to a head in 2023 when he declared—during Black History Month!—that Black people were a “hate group.” I found myself semi-regularly antagonizing him (and his defenders) on Twitter—right up until he blocked me.

I haven’t been a fan in a long time.

Living with cancer is awful, and prostate cancer is one of its devastating forms. And yes—fuck cancer. I take no great pleasure in Adams’ death from this terrible disease.

But I won’t be grieving for him.

See Also: The New York Times’s obituary.