Overview
- Shelly Miles disclosed his death in a live appearance on his Real Coffee with Scott Adams podcast and in a video posted on X.
- Adams had prostate cancer that spread to his bones, a decline that was reported to have left him paraplegic before his death.
- A day earlier, his ex-wife said he was in palliative care and likely had only days to live, according to TMZ.
- In 2023, more than a thousand newspapers dropped Dilbert after Adams made comments widely described as racist on his podcast.
- Launched in 1989, the workplace satire became a global hit that at its peak ran in about 2,000 papers and spawned a two-season animated series.