FLE - Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator says he has same prostate cancer as Joe Biden
The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was canceled by most newspapers two years ago over the creator鈥檚 racist comments, said Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden.
FLE - Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was canceled by most newspapers two years ago over the creator鈥檚 racist comments, said Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden.
鈥淚 have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,鈥 Scott Adams said Monday during an episode of his YouTube show, 鈥淩eal Coffee with Scott Adams. 鈥淪o, I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones.鈥
He made the announcement after extending his 鈥渞espect and compassion and sympathy鈥 for Biden and his family. on Sunday and said he and his family were reviewing treatment options with his doctors.
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Adams, 67, said he’s always in pain, uses a walker to get around and that he expects to die sometime this summer.
鈥淚t’s basically intolerable,鈥 he said of the pain.
Adams said he has had time to process his diagnosis and that it has given him time to say goodbyes, get his affairs in order and do all the things he needed to do.
Dilbert the comic strip first appeared in 1989, poking fun at office culture. It ran for decades in numerous newspapers but in 2023 following racist remarks by Adams.
On his YouTube show at the time, among other things, he described Black people as a 鈥渉ate group鈥 and said he would no longer 鈥渉elp Black Americans.鈥
He later said he was being hyperbolic, yet continued to defend his stance.
Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work.
The editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which dumped 鈥淒ilbert鈥 in 2022, said the comic strip 鈥渨ent from being hilarious to being hurtful and mean.鈥
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