Scott Adams has been writing and drawing the Dilbert comic strip for newspapers since April 16, 1989.
The strip about office workplace culture rose to be one of the most popular in America, with millions of fans. At its peak, it appeared in more than 2,000 newspapers. In 1998, Adams won the prestigious National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award, which goes to the outstanding cartoonist of the year. There was even a TV show, which ran briefly from 1999 to 2000 and featured the voices of Daniel Stern, Chris Elliott, Larry Miller and Kathy Griffin.
Now the strip, along with Adams’ reputation, is in shambles after Adams made racist comments last week. Hundreds of newspapers are dropping Dilbert following Adams’ bizarre and disturbing rant on YouTube.
