Upon joining the organization, he first worked as a teller. Career Office workerĪdams worked closely with telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco between 19. Adams took Dale Carnegie Training and called it "life changing". In 1986, Adams earned an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He then moved to California and started work. He remained in the area and earned a BA in economics from Hartwick College in 1979. Īdams graduated from Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School in 1975 and was the valedictorian of his class of 39 students. He was a fan of Peanuts comics while growing up and started drawing comics at age 6. In 2016, Adams said he had a small amount of Native American ancestry, but later discovered via 23andme genetic testing that he does not have any detectable Native American genetic markers. He has described himself as "about half German" and also has English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry. Adams relaunched the strip as Dilbert Reborn on Locals in March 2023.Īdams was born on J in Windham, New York, the son of Paul and Virginia (née Vining) Adams. In 2023, Dilbert was dropped by numerous newspapers and its distributor, Andrews McMeel Syndication, after Adams published a video in which he characterized Black people as a "hate group" and advised White people to "get the hell away from Black people". In addition, Adams has written books in various other areas, including the spiritual experiment God's Debris encapsulating a form of pandeism, and books on political and management topics, including Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter. Dilbert remained popular throughout the following decades, spawning several books written by Adams and becoming something of a cultural touchstone.Īdams writes in a satirical, often sarcastic way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern corporations.
While working at a telephone company in 1989, Adams created Dilbert by the mid-1990s, amidst a slew of downsizing in the United States, the strip had gained national prominence in America and even began to reach a worldwide audience. Adams worked in various business roles before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995.
He is the creator of the syndicated Dilbert comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is an American author and cartoonist.
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