New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- 'Dilbert' comic creator Scott Adams passed away on Tuesday, 13 January, following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68 years old.

The 'Dilbert' cartoonist's former wife Shelly Miles announced Adams' death in a live stream on his YouTube channel, 'Real Coffee with Scott Adams.' Reading a statement Miles said Adams had prepared before his death.

"I had an amazing life," the statement said in part. "I gave it everything I had."

Scott Adams became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers in the 1900s for his comic strip "Dilbert," an award-winning satire that poked fun at office culture.

Scott Adams was still working as an engineer at Pacific Bell in the 1980s when he began sketching carto...