Controversial creator Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for “Dilbert,” is paralyzed.
On Saturday, the cartoonist, 68, said on social media that he is “paralyzed below the waist” in the wake of his prostate cancer battle.
“I can’t move any muscles,” he said on his Youtube channel. “I do have feeling, I just can’t move any muscles.”
He explained that they are working on a “solution” to send him to a “facility to get radiated.”
“They’re gonna try to radiate that pesky tumor that’s around my spine if all goes well, and it gets more tumor than it gets good stuff, I might get my, at least ability to get to get some strength back in my lower body.”
The cartoonist, who became famous after the comic launched in 1989, praised the hospital staff that has aided him.
He said that “several days of radiation” and help from the nursing staff will “get me to the point where I can do enough myself that I can go home” from the hospital.
“We’ve MRIed it and looked at it, and I’ve got all the help I need at Kaiser. More than enough. They’re bending over backwards.”
In May, Adams revealed his cancer diagnosis and estimated that he had months to live.
“My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer,” he said at the time. “The disease is already intolerable. I can tell you that I don’t have good days. So if you are wondering, ‘Hey Scott, do you have any good days’? Nope. Nope. Every day is a nightmare and evening is even worse.”
The cartoonist has long been controversial.
In Feb. 2023, Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US, announced it would no longer run the comic “effective immediately” over racist remarks that Adams made on his online show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams,” which included Adams stating that he believes that white people should “get the f–k away” from Black people.
“Recent discriminatory comments by the creator, Scott Adams, have influenced our decision to discontinue publishing his comic. While we respect and encourage free speech, his views do not align with our editorial or business values as an organization,” the USA Today Network of hundreds of newspapers said in a statement to The Post at the time.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Washington Post also cut ties with Adams.
In 2022, “Dilbert” was also stripped from around 80 newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises as part of a print revamp.
Although he couldn’t prove it, Adams claimed “Dilbert” was removed because he introduced “wokeness” into his office-centric cartoons.
“It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess,” Adams told Fox News at the time.
