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UpInArms

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Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:55 AM Tuesday

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at 68 after prostate cancer diagnosis [View all]

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” has died after being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. The cartoonist’s former wife, Shelly Miles, announced his death in a livestream on X on Tuesday morning, reading a statement Adams had prepared for her on Jan. 1.

“I had an amazing life,” the statement read, in part. “I gave it everything I had.”

In November, Adams issued a plea for President Trump to “help save his life” after the cartoonist said his health care provider, Kaiser Permanente, “dropped the ball” in scheduling treatment of a newly FDA-approved drug for the disease.

… more at

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-dies-at-68-after-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-160126400.html

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