""I knew I wanted to be a cartoonist from the time I was 5, when I first learned that cartoonists existed," Adams wrote in a New York Times essay in 2003. "I wanted to get paid for drawing pictures all day long. But when you reach an age where you understand likelihood and statistics, you lose that innocence that anything is possible. In high school, I realized there was only one Charles Schulz and a lot of lawyers.""
"Adams will, likely, largely be remembered for the legacy of , the comic strip that at one point was syndicated in 2,000 newpapers, and that cleverly skewered the ironies and frustrations of cubicle-dwelling office culture of the 1980s and 90s. The central character, Dilbert, an engineer, seemed to be a foil for Adams himself, a frustrated cog in a larger corporate wheel Adams worked for Crocker National Bank and then Pacific Bell in San Francisco, before he ultimately became one of the most successful cartoonists in the country."
Scott Adams died of an aggressive form of prostate cancer that he revealed last year. He created the comic strip Dilbert, which at its peak was syndicated in 2,000 newspapers and satirized the ironies and frustrations of cubicle-dwelling office culture in the 1980s and 1990s. The central character, Dilbert, portrayed an engineer and a frustrated corporate cog. Adams worked at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell in San Francisco before becoming a widely successful cartoonist. He said Dilbert originated from doodles of a "potato-shaped" coworker drawn during meetings. A 1996 bestselling book promoted a principle about ineffective workers being moved to reduce damage to management. Adams produced multiple other books, took on religion in several volumes, and in later years shifted toward far-right politics and flirted with conspiracy theories while living in Pleasanton.
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