By Sophia Gliwa —
The creator of the beloved comic strip Dilbert that skewered managers and vindicated workers hilariously from 1989 to 2023, Scott Adams, died Tuesday but not without accepting Jesus Christ first. He was 68.
“My Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go,” ex-wife Shelly Miles read his statement. “I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with him.”
Adams remained an unbeliever because of doubts about the afterlife. “The part about me not being a believer should be quite quickly resolved if I wake up in Heaven,” Adams added. “I won’t need any more convincing than that. I hope I’m still qualified for entry.”
Dilbert exploded onto comic pages (back before the Internet) and was a nationwide sensation, running in 2,000 newspapers in the early 2000s. It made the unfunny office funny. Dilbert was an engineer who was micro-managed by an incompetent boss. Books, a cartoon T.V. series and a video game spun off. Themed merchandise items also hit the market.
Adams was given the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award in 1997.
The satirist, from Windham, NY, was residing in Pleasanton, CA, when he died of cancer.
