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'Dilbert' creator, 'Coffee' podcaster
Los Angeles Times
|January 14, 2026
Cartoonist gained fame with comic strip before racist remarks upended his career.
Scott Adams, whose comic strip "Dilbert" satirized a certain kind of workplace culture for more than 30 years before it was pushed from wide distribution over its author's comments on race, died Tuesday morning after a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68.
The announcement came via Adams' video channels. where he livestreamed daily until Monday morning.
"Hi everyone. Unfortunately this isn’t good news.
Of course he waited until just before the show started, but he’s not with us anymore,” his ex-wife, Shelly Miles, said through tears Tuesday morning.The cartoonist, whose extremely dry humor and heterodox political beliefs were on public display in recent years on his daily livestream “Real Coffee With Scott Adams,” spoke directly to his audience until the day before he died, getting some help from friends in his final days.
Adams also left a statement as a sort of coda, written New Year's Day and read aloud Tuesday by his exwife, that noted his body had failed him but his mind had not.
“I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had,” Adams wrote. “If you got any benefits from my work, I’m asking that you pay it forward as best you can. That's the legacy I want. Be useful, and please know I loved you all till the very end.”
Adams revealed his Stage 4 cancer diagnosis in May 2025, shortly after former President Biden's metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis went public.
“Some of you have already guessed, so this won't surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer Joe Biden has,” he said on his May 19, 2025, livestream. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones, but I've had it longer than he’s had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted having it.”
He noted that he and the former commander in chief both had “the bad kind” of prostate cancer.
This story is from the January 14, 2026 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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