American cartoonist and novelist Scott Raymond Adams came into this world on June 8, 1957. He has written numerous books of nonfiction on business, commentary, and satire, and he is also the creator of the comic strip Dilbert. Before dedicating himself fully to cartooning in 1995, Adams held a number of administrative positions. Adams wrote Dilbert in 1989 while working at Pacific Bell. The comic strip started to garner international attention and star power in the mid-1990s, when it was already well-known across the United States. In the decades that followed, Dilbert's success led to further novels by Adams.
Adams satirizes the modern corporate white-collar worker's social and psychological environment. Along with his works on politics and management (such as Loserthink), Adams has authored works in a number of other genres, such as the pandeistic spiritual novella God's Debris.
Many newspapers and Andrews McMeel Syndication, the show's distributor, cut ties with Dilbert in February 2023 after Adams referred to Black Americans who disagreed with "It's okay to be white" as a "hate group" and told white Americans to "get the hell away from" them. Hyperbole, according to Adams's subsequent comments [3][4]. After that, on his website locals.com, Adams revived the strip as a webcomic.
Paul and Virginia (née Vining) Adams had a son named Adams on June 8, 1957,[7] in Windham, New York. [8] Although he claims to be "about half German"[10], his family tree also includes members of the English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and Dutch families. the eleventh [12] Adams claimed to have some Native American ancestry in 2016, however further 23andMe testing revealed that he had no identifiable Native American DNA. [14] At the age of 6, he began sketching comics, and he was a lifelong fan of the Peanuts series. [15] With the age of eleven, he took first place in an art contest. [15]
In 1975, Adams was the valedictorian of his class of 39 students at Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School. In 1979, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. [16] After that, he began working in California. [15] He received his Master of Business Administration degree from Berkeley in 1986. According to Adams, Dale Carnegie Training was a "life changing" experience. [18] in
From 1979 until 1986, Adams was an integral part of the San Francisco team of Crocker National Bank that dealt with communications engineering. He began his tenure with the company as a teller. He enrolled in a management program four months after being held twice at gunpoint. [15] Aside from his time as a supervisor, he has worked as a computer programmer, budget analyst, commercial lender, and management trainee. [15]
Eventually, he found employment at Pacific Bell. To focus on establishing a new career, he got up at 4 a.m. every day and tried his hand at other things; cartooning ended up being the most fruitful. During this time of self-discovery, Adams crafted Dilbert. [19] His previous employer, Mike Goodwin, proposed the name Dilbert. Lucy, the family's beloved beagle who passed away, was a loose inspiration for Dogbert, who was once called Dildog. [15]
He kept up his early morning cartooning routine to keep his revenue steady. A $368.62 royalty check arrived in his mailbox every month as his initial payment for Dilbert. [15] Dilbert's popularity grew over time. In 1991, 100 newspapers syndicated it, and by 1994, that number had risen to 400. Adams said that his inclusion of his email address in the panels was the key to his success since it allowed people to provide feedback and recommendations. [15]