Scott Adams (comic artist)

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Scott Adams (2007)

Scott Adams (born June 8, 1957 ) is an American comic artist and author. He became known through the Dilbert comics and books.

Life

Adams studied economics and management with an MBA from the University of Berkeley . He then worked in open-plan offices for 17 years, most recently at the US telephone company Pacific Bell . There, in “endless meetings”, the comic figure Dilbert gradually took on her mouthless shape. Over the years, in his satirical books, he developed an extensive office microcosm in the field of tension between management and engineering. Adams suffered from spasmodic dysphonia for a time , which prevented him from speaking, but was improved by surgery.

In Germany, his comic strips appeared around the turn of the millennium in the business section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . 1997 Adams received the Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society as Cartoonist of the Year Award.

Adams also owns Scott Adams Foods, Inc. , which started offering vegan burritos called Dilberito from 1999 . Adams is a vegetarian. His net worth was estimated at several million dollars by Bloomberg Television in 2017 .

Commitment to Donald Trump

Since September 2016, Scott Adams has been an avowed supporter of Donald J. Trump , whom he repeatedly called a genius . He justified the fact that he had supported Hillary Clinton in June 2016 by saying that he had only faked this out of fear of Clinton and her supporters, as prominent Trump supporters feared for their lives. As early as August 2015, he predicted that Trump would win the race for the presidency because he had a persuasive skill that was far superior to all other applicants. The consideration of Trump's presidency and persuasiveness have since been the focus of his blog posts and video podcasts. After his election, Trump invited Adams to the Oval Office . With his book "Loserthink" from 2019, Adams tries to legitimize many conservative positions. Adams expressly denies climate change and is of the opinion that if CO 2 is a problem, it can be solved using suction technology and nuclear energy .

Whenhub and cryptocurrency

Scott Adams is a co-founder of CalendarTree, Inc., a software company called Whenhub. This software is used for paid advice by experts via a video connection. Payment is to be made via a separate crypto currency called "WHEN Token" that is integrated in the app . The qualifications of the experts are not checked.

Works (selection)

  • 1997 The Dilbert Principle: The Ultimate Truth About Bosses , Conferences, Managers, and Other Martyrs , Redline, ISBN 978-3636015921 .
  • 1997 Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook
  • 1998 Dilbert Future
  • 1998 The Joy of Work
  • 2003 Dilbert and the hour of the weasel
  • 2005 We make a profit as soon as the comet hits
  • 2008 The right attitude
  • 2011 Best of Dilbert
  • 2017 Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter , Portfolio Penguin, ISBN 978-0525533320
  • 2019 Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining the World , Portfolio Penguin, ISBN 978-0593086339 .

Quote from the cartoon character Wally

“The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to see other people as noisy furniture, you will be happy. "

- Wally

Guest appearances

  • 1996: Guest appearance in the sitcom NewsRadio . In the episode 'Dilbert and the Workhorses', however, he does not play himself, but only a small supporting role, while someone else pretends to be Scott Adams.
  • 1997: Guest appearance as Mr. Adams in the science fiction series Babylon 5 . Mr. Adams hires a detective to find his dog and cat.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Dilbert principle , Heyne 1997, author note.
  2. ↑ Scott Adams: How To Fail At Almost Everything. Kind of the Story of My Life
  3. ↑ Overview of the awards presented by the National Cartoonists Society and their winners , accessed on February 1, 2016
  4. ↑ a b bizjournals.com: Dilbert creator backs burrito ventureDilbert creator backs burrito venture
  5. ↑ Why I Switched My Endorsement from Clinton to Trump - Dilbert Blog . In: Dilbert Blog . September 25, 2016 ( dilbert.com [accessed July 16, 2018]).
  6. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump report at Bloomberg (English)
  7. ↑ https://www.scottadamssays.com/2019/09/23/a-message-for-children-about-climate-change article on his private homepage (English)
  8. ↑ https://www.whenhub.com/pages/about Information page of the company
  9. ↑ dilbert.com: Wally's Keynote Speech , accessed February 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1957