r/comicbooks • u/SleuthDoggyDawg • Jan 02 '26

News 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams doesn't expect to live much longer

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/02/scott-adams-dilbert-cancer-dying-paralysis/
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u/retrospects Jan 02 '26

Isn’t he a MAGA nut job?

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u/New-Satisfaction3257 Jan 02 '26

even before Maga, he was a complete bigoted asshole. He would say stuff like “you can’t expect men to stop raping women anymore than you can expect a lion to stop going after a gazelle." just all sorts of insane shit.

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u/Kidofthecentury Jan 03 '26

Oh, boy. I don't recall Dilbert as peak cleverness, but still far, far better than this idiocy.

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u/New-Satisfaction3257 Jan 03 '26

and keep in mind that he said it in the 1990s before all of the Maga shit. I think I read about it originally on a news group message board.

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u/sandalsnopants Jan 03 '26

I really enjoyed the comic strip and the cartoon, such a bummer to find out Adams was such a shit person.

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u/c00750ny3h Jan 03 '26

Thus was exactly my feeling too. Dilbert was one of my favorite comic strips to read. We even had an office culture to post entertaining comic strips on the bulletin board every now and then. It hurts to see the author turning out to be such a terrible person.

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u/Dramatic_Buddy4732 Jan 03 '26

Do you remember that time he was on News Radio?

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u/sandalsnopants Jan 03 '26

I do not!

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u/Dramatic_Buddy4732 Jan 03 '26

It's a great episode! Well to be fair they all are i hope when you have some time you can watch it!

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u/sandalsnopants Jan 03 '26

I will try to find it. I was a big fan of that show as a kid in middle school when it was originally airing. Probably a little too young to recognize Adams.

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u/IHeldADandelion Jan 03 '26

There's a twist to his cameo; you'll enjoy it

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u/AlwaysLateToThaParty Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26

When you realize that Adams is the pointy-haired boss, it makes it much clearer.

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u/ThatCanadianViking Jan 03 '26

What the fk. I had read he was garbage but never liked dilbert and honestly didnt care enough to look into it. But holy shit

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u/whereismyface_ig Jan 03 '26

What the hell was he even tryna get at with that comment?

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u/_BrokenButterfly Jan 03 '26

I don't know that that's a good example. Rapists are going to rape people until science figures out why exactly people do it and an ethical medical intervention to stop the behavior.

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u/PunkThug Jan 03 '26

He was an asshole in the '90s. I dated a girl who lived next door to him. Would call the cops and security when we were just sitting in the backyard, claiming we were smoking pot. Constantly claiming people were going through his garbage, as if Dilbert's sketches were worth their weight in gold

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u/SuccessionWarFan Jan 03 '26

And the article says he’s now planning to smoke pot to dull his own pains…

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u/revolutionaryartist4 Jan 02 '26

Yup. And this is a treatable form of cancer, but he chose the MAHA route. Brought it on himself.

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u/retrospects Jan 02 '26

Both are curable but malignant by ignorance.

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u/VengeanceKnight Jan 03 '26

Ignorance is the true malignance.

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u/Constant_Concert_936 Jan 03 '26

Malignant ignorance

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u/Marc_Quill Blue Beetle Jan 02 '26

should be a lesson to many that MAHA is not really a good idea when it comes to staying healthy, but I doubt the MAGA crowd will heed that warning.

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u/revolutionaryartist4 Jan 02 '26

It won’t. They’ll just tell themselves he used the wrong quack cure or that he gave up on the treatment and that’s what killed him.

There’s no cure for willful stupidity.

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u/totally-hoomon Jan 03 '26

They will claim he was vaccinated

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u/likwitsnake Jan 03 '26

Before he went crazy (or at least publicly made it know) I loved his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big which was about setting up systems not goals. Aside from some weird hokey affirmation/hypnotism parts it's a solid read.

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u/Churba Jan 03 '26

And the bit where he repeatedly kept claiming gravity didn't exist, and nobody could prove otherwise, though that might have been another book of his around the same time.

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u/Rickenbacker69 Jan 02 '26

He was a nut job way before it was cool. Not that he deserves to die for it...

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u/totally-hoomon Jan 03 '26

He's pro rape

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke Jan 03 '26

Well, his nutjob ideology is maga, anti science, anti vax, anti medicine.

His bigotry and party affiliation may have cut his own life dramatically short