Overview
- Ex-wife Shelly Miles disclosed Adams’ death on January 13 during his Real Coffee with Scott Adams stream and read his farewell letter to fans.
- Adams had revealed in 2025 that his prostate cancer had spread to his bones and described severe, unrelenting pain and a limited prognosis.
- He was recently treated in a hospice, and his farewell note said, “I had an incredible life” and “My body went before my mind,” according to reports.
- Dilbert, launched in 1989, grew to run in roughly 2,000 newspapers worldwide at its peak, including publications in Germany.
- Major U.S. outlets dropped Dilbert in 2023 after Adams called Black Americans a “hate group,” and President Donald Trump praised him after his death as a “great influencer.”