Comedy strip creator Scott Adams, who’s finest recognized for making the cartoon sequence Dilbert, has died aged 68, following a devastating battle with prostate most cancers. After it was revealed that the author and illustrator had been positioned in hospice care final week, Scott’s ex-wife, Shelly Miles, confirmed his loss of life on his fashionable podcast, Actual Espresso With Scott Adams. On Tuesday (January 13), she introduced that Scott was “not with us” and broke down in tears as she learn a remaining message he had penned earlier than his remaining breath.

Shelly learn: “If you’re studying this, issues didn’t go properly for me, I’ve a number of issues to say earlier than I am going. My physique failed earlier than my mind, I’m of sound thoughts as I write this January 1, 2026. In case you marvel about any of my selections for my property or the rest, please know I am freed from any inappropriate affect of any type, I promise. “Subsequent, lots of my Christian associates have requested me to seek out Jesus earlier than I am going,” Shelly continued. “I’m not a believer, however I’ve to confess the risk-reward calculation for doing so appears to be like so enticing to me. So, right here I am going. I settle for Jesus Christ as my lord and Saviour, and sit up for spending an eternity with him. The half about me not being a believer must be shortly resolved if I get up in heaven.”

In his remaining letter, Scott stated that whereas he was an atheist, he “will not want any extra convincing” if he leads to heaven, and added: “I hope I qualify.”

Shelly continued to learn his final message to followers and went on: “Together with your permission, I would like to clarify my life. 

“For the primary a part of my life, I used to be centered on making myself a worthy husband and mother or father as a solution to discover that means. That labored, however marriages do not at all times final perpetually.”

Scott, who launched Dilbert in 1989, first introduced he had been recognized with prostate most cancers in Could 2025, and admitted he had been quietly battling the illness for a while. 

On the time, the cartoonist warned followers about his prospects and shared: “In case you’re questioning if I am going to get higher, the reply is not any, it would solely worsen… There’s just one route this goes.”

In recent times, Scott was embroiled in controversy after he warned white individuals to get the “f**okay away” from black individuals, and because of this, America’s largest newspaper writer, Gannett, stopped publishing the comedian simply days after his feedback.

Over 30 years after first launching the comedian, his profession got here crashing down after sparking a racism row, which additionally resulted in him being dropped by 77 newspapers, following a flip within the storylines that proved controversial, together with one in all a black character who recognized as white.

In a 2023 episode of his podcast, Scott instructed listeners: “The very best recommendation I’d give to white individuals is to get the hell away from black individuals. Simply get the f**okay away. Wherever it’s important to go, simply get away. There’s no fixing this. This could’t be mounted… You simply have to flee.”

He added: “In order that’s what I did, I went to a neighbourhood the place I’ve a really low black inhabitants.” He later double-down on his feedback and claimed black individuals have been a “hate group”.

In a earlier X/Twitter put up, the cartoonist additionally claimed: “Lots of people are offended at me at the moment however I have not but heard anybody disagree.

“I make two details: 1. Deal with everybody as a person (no discrimination). 2. Keep away from any group that does not respect you. Does anybody assume that’s unhealthy recommendation?”