Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist and Trump fan, dead at 68
Ex-wife shares a final message from the artist, whose comic strip lampooned office life and whose career flagged after a racist rant
Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams, a vocal Trump supporter whose career flagged after a racist rant, died on Tuesday, his former wife said. He was 68.
Shelly Miles announced Adams’ passing in an online live stream in which she read a final message from the artist, whose strip lampooned life in the cubicle farms of corporate America, framed around its titular character, an engineer known for his glasses and perennially bent tie.
Adams first announced he had metastatic prostate cancer in May 2025 in his Coffee with Scott Adams video show and said he had only a few months to live.
He continued to document his decline on social media and made a direct appeal to US President Donald Trump to get his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, to schedule treatment with the targeted radiotherapy drug Pluvicto.
“On it,” Trump responded in a November 2 social media post. A day later Adams wrote on social media that he would begin receiving Pluvicto the next day.
On Tuesday, the Republican president noted the cartoonist’s passing.