‘Dilbert’ cartoonist Scott Adams reveals he’s paralyzed below the waist in wake of cancer battle
Scott Adams, the 68‑year‑old cartoonist whose “Dilbert” strip first appeared in 1989, has revealed that he is now “paralyzed below the waist” after a battle with prostate cancer.
He posted on social media to tell his followers that, “I can’t move any muscles,” adding that he still has feeling, “I just can’t move any muscles.”
He explained that a team is working on a “solution” that will involve sending him to a “facility to get radiated.” “They’re gonna try to radiate that pesky tumor that’s around my spine if all goes well, and it gets more tumor than it gets good stuff, I might get my, at least ability to get to get some strength back in my lower body.”
The cartoonist has praised the hospital staff, saying that a few days of radiation combined with help from the nursing team should bring him close enough to be home. “We’ve MRIed it and looked at it, and I’ve got all the help I need at Kaiser. More than enough.
They’re bending over backwards.” In May, Adams had warned that his life expectancy might have been only until the summer, describing the disease as “intolerable” and saying he “doesn’t have good days.” He noted, “Every day is a nightmare and evening is even worse.”
Adams has long been a polarizing figure. In February 2023, Gannett decided to stop publishing his comic “effective immediately” after a viral rant on his online show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” in which he suggested that white people should “get the f–k away” from Black people.
“Recent discriminatory comments by the creator, Scott Adams, have influenced our decision to discontinue publishing his comic. While we respect and encourage free speech, his views do not align with our editorial or business values as an organization,” the USA Today network of hundreds of newspapers said.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Washington Post also dropped the strip. In 2022, “Dilbert” was removed from about 80 newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises during a print revamp.
Though Adams never proved it, he argued that his strip was pulled because he had introduced “wokeness” into its office‑centric jokes. “It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess,” he told Fox News that year.
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