The cartoonist best known for demystifying corporate life struggle through his satirical comic strip Dilbert, Scott Adams, has died at 68 after a prolonged battle with metastatic prostate cancer.

His ex-wife, Shelly Miles, announced his demise on Tuesday via his YouTube channel and podcast, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, reading a final statement he prepared.

“I had an amazing life,” the cartoonist wrote in his dying statement read by Ms Miles.

Mr Adams first disclosed his diagnosis in May 2025 when he publicly empathised with former president Joe Biden who was also undergoing cancer treatment at the time.

His cartoons simplified the difficulties of the corporate world and made office workers feel less alone seeing depictions of their frustrations in Dilbert’s comic characters.

“I heard from all these people who thought that they were the only ones, that they were in this unique, absurd situation. That they couldn’t talk about their situation because no one would believe it, ” the cartoonist told The New York Times in a 1995 interview.

Mr Adams, who was the darling of major newspapers such as The New York Times, Washington Post, U.S.A Today, lost the majority of his fans and papers’ goodwill after he made inflammatory remarks about Black people.

“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” he said on the podcast episode that later sullied the decades-long relationship he had cultivated with the newspapers and his fans. “Then they are a ‘hate group’.” The Times cited him as saying in 2023.

“I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” Mr Adams added.

He suffered a cancel culture that caused major mastheads to cut ties with him and stop featuring his works in their publications.

“Most of my income will be gone by next week,” Mr Adams said in another episode of his podcast. “My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right?”

Mr Adams obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hartwick College in 1979 and completed an M.B.A. program from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.

He was loved by many for his cartoon characters that made the difficult lives of working in office cubicles relatable and less lonely.