Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Dies at 68 Amid Racism Fallout
TL;DR
Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind Dilbert, died at 68 from prostate cancer. He built the strip into a major late-20th-century brand with bestselling books and a 1999–2000 Dilbert animated series on UPN, but his career collapsed after racist remarks in 2023 led newspapers and distributors to drop the strip, ending his mainstream influence in comics and animation.
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