Scott Adams

Scott Raymond Adams June 8 1957 January 13 2026 was an American author and cartoonist He was the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business commentary and satire Adams grew up in Windham NY in the Catskill Mountains He has a younger and older sibling and was the son of a postal clerk and a real estate agent He graduated his high schools Valedictorian and continued studying to earn his BA in economics from Hartwick College and furthered that to an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley His most notable work among many he has authored or had creative input in is Dilbert which launched in 1989 in a handful of newspapers Now Dilbert appears in over 2000 newspapers in 57 countries and in 19 languages Dilbertdotcom was the first website for a daily syndicated comic strip and his work consistent work on cartooning earned him the Reuben award in 1997 the highest honor for such an artist Over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars are in print and the officethemed character has been the top selling pageaday calendar for a number of years In addition to the notorious printed works Adams was coexecutive director of the Dilbert animated TV show that ran on UPN for two halfseasons writing or cowriting most of the episodes