Scott Adams, Dilbert creator who went from cubicle wars to culture wars, posts open letter to time with his death at 68

“If you are reading this, things did not go well for me.” That’s how Scott Adams’ X account announced his death on Jan. 13, reaching an enormous global audience in much the way he had for decades throughout a career that spanned both the cartoon pages and front pages of newspapers for the controversial personality.

Adams, creator of the satirical office comic strip “Dilbert” and later a polarizing conservative-leaning online commentator, died in Pleasanton, Calif., at 68 from metastatic prostate cancer.