Scott Adams creator of Dilbert comic strip and mega supporter of Donald Trump has died at age 68.
Dilbert was once famous for satirizing corporate life promotions without raises and absurd policies and incompetent managers.
His strip was dropped by many leading newspapers in 2023.
Because of racist comments he made on his YouTube show.
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He sometimes dealt in misogyny, transphobia and anti semitism.
Adams worked as teller and in managerial positions at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco and engineer at Pacific Bell jobs that gave him material for Dilbert.
At Crocker he passed the time in dull meeting by drawing caricature of his colleagues who shared them by facsimile. The New York Times reports.
He sent his supervisor a memo on how to improve the bank operators and that got him into management training program.
He earned a master of business admin degree from University of California Berkeley in 1986 and he joined Pac Bell that year.
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Adams died Tuesday at his home in Pleasanton California. Shelly Miles Adams, one of his two ex wives announced his death on livestream.
She read statement that he had prepared saying.
“I had amazing life. I gave it everything i had.
Scott Adams had announced in May that he had metastatic prostate cancer.
Multiple corporate drones could link to strip but some critics did not find it so funny.
To speak bluntly about power inequities and work with other to challenge them.
Trump posted about Adams on Truth Social
Sadly the Great influencer Scott Adams has passed away he wrote.
He was fantastic guy who liked and respected me when it was not fashionable to do so.
He fought a long fought against terrible disease.
My condolences go out to his family and all of friends and listeners.
He will truly missed. God bless you Scott.
Adams said he paid price for supporting Trump
“When I decided that i would throw away my entire social life to back Trump and when i finally threw away my entire career which before i was canceled my licensing business and book sales went to nothing because i was supporting Trump”
I sacrificed everything i sacrificed my social life i sacrificed my career i sacrificed my reputation i may sacrificed my health and i did that because i believed it was worth it.
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Trump helped arrange for his treatment with cancer drug Pluvicto which Adams insurer had approved but failed to schedule but had to postpone the drug use because it fight with his radiation treatment.
In 2014 Adams used his strip to lambaste an antigay court ruling from India.
The nation highest court had ruled that law banning carnal acts against the order of nature: was constitutional.
Adams had Dogbert call ruling hopelessly ignorant and annouce that Asok the intern is now official gay.
The cartoonist had Asok adding he has lot of gay stuff to do.
