Scott Adams, whose experience as a bank and phone company middle manager gave him the material to create the comic strip “Dilbert,” a daily satire of corporate life that became a sensation but was dro...

Scott Adams, controversial author and creator of the Dilbert comic strip, has died, months after announcing he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Adams launched “Dilbert” in 1989, and the satirical workplace strip became a global phenomenon, appearing in thousands of newspapers.