Scott Adams: One of the Top 10 Comic Strip Creators in History

Earlier today, Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, passed away at the age of 68.

Was Dilbert the best comic strip of all time?

Back in 2014, we proclaimed Dilbert the best comic strip between the years 2000-2010:

"Launched in 1989, it took a few years for Scott Adams’ crude drawings to take hold with the comic strip-loving public. Spot on observations pertaining to the business world, along with a razor-sharp wit, carried it until the cartooning caught up with the writing. Since then, Adams has won numerous awards for his strip, which centers around socially awkward engineer Dilbert and the characters that rotate around him in his corporate universe.

Dilbert is currently in over 2,000 newspapers worldwide, is licensed to over a hundred products, and was briefly a cartoon in 1999-2000, but perhaps the most awesome thing associated with Dilbert’s image is the Dilberito, a healthy microwavable burrito that briefly invaded the market back in 2000."

Personally, if I had to rate the Top 10 Comic Strips of All Time, it would look something like this:

1. Bloom County

2. Doonesbury

3. Dilbert

4. Calvin and Hobbes

5. Far Side

6. Pearls Before Swine

7. Fox Trot

8. Peanuts

9. Garfield

10. Crankshaft

I didn't plan on writing a Scott Adams obituary, there's one in every paper in America, but I was annoyed by the headlines of his death:

Since about the year 2010, there has been a very problematic trend in the left-leaning mainstream media. If you are a beloved personality, and espouse leftist ideas, you get a nice obituary.

If you rise to the top of your profession, but are vocally right-leaning, you get the "controversial" or "problematic" tag.

Scott Adams was a genius who captured the absurdity of corporate-culture better than any other American. But because he made some provocative statements on his podcast, some liberals decided Scott Adams' work didn't deserve to be read.

At his death, Adams was a casualty of cancel culture.