About Scott Adams

Scott grew up in Windham, New York, a small town in the Catskill Mountains. He spent much of his youth making insulting drawings of his teachers and classmates. In spite of his antisocial behavior, he graduated at the top of a tiny class of forty students and earned scholarships to Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He decided to major in economics because he had heard good things about something called money.

In his senior year of college, on the way to an unsuccessful job interview for a big accounting firm, his rusty car broke down on a rarely traveled road in the middle of nowhere. The temperature was below zero and Scott had unwisely left his jacket at home. That night, Scott made a vow that if he didn't freeze to death he would trade his worthless car for a one-way ticket to California and never see another snowflake as long as he lived. A few months later, he was living in San Francisco. He has been in the Bay Area ever since, and so far he has avoided all contact with snow.

Scott started his professional career as a bank teller in downtown San Francisco, where he was robbed twice at gunpoint within six months. The growing probability of getting shot gave him the incentive to get into a management training program. That launched him into a string of often humiliating and surprisingly low- paying jobs including computer programmer, financial analyst, product manager, commercial lender, and more. Scott's dream was to someday be promoted to a level where he could seem important without doing much in the way of work. To do that, he figured he needed an MBA. So he took night classes at the University of California at Berkeley and got his master's degree in business administration.

At about that time his boss informed him that the company already had too many generic white guys in senior management, and promoting Scott would only make things worse. So Scott jumped ship and got a job at the local phone company. There he worked in a number of positions that involved pretending to be useful and hoping no one asked too many questions. His business card said "engineer" simply because the company needed more engineers and no one seemed to mind that he was unqualified for the job. It was a common condition.

Scott's big break in cartooning came when history repeated itself and his boss at the phone company told Scott he was too ethnically challenged to get promoted. As with his previous employer, the phone company had too many generic white guys in the top jobs. Suddenly, working long hours didn't seem so important to Scott, leaving him plenty of time to work on hobbies. Cartooning was one of them.

On the advice of cartoonist Jack Cassady, Scott bought a book called 1986 Artist's Market and followed the instructions on how to submit samples of comic strips for syndication. United Media liked what they saw and offered a contract. Dilbert was launched in 1989.

Now Dilbert appears in 2,000 newspapers in 70 countries, making it one of the most successful syndicated comic strips in history. There are over 20 million Dilbert books and calendars in print. Dilbert is the most widely read comic on the Internet.

Scott owns two restaurants in California and actively manages one of them. He is married, with two stepchildren, three cats, and no talking dogs.

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Contact: Kathy Hilliard, (800) 851-8923, ext. 7497, khilliard@amuniversal.com

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Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert

By: Scott Adams
Published by: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-7735-6
Format: Hardcover: 10 x 13, 576 pages
Price: $85.00 ($90.00 Canada)

Also included is a DVD with every Dilbert cartoon from 1989 through April 2008. It is the must-have collection for millions of Dilbert fans.

Dilbert © 2008 by Scott Adams, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.