After the long-running Dilbert cartoon strip's creator made racist remarks, many US newspapers, including the Washington Post, stopped running it.
Scott Adams, a white man, claimed in a YouTube video that black Americans were members of a "hate group" and that white people should "get the hell away" from them.
The 65-year-old Mr. Adams later admitted that his career was ruined.
He claimed that by next week, the majority of his income would be gone.
A talking dog and a depressed office worker, Dilbert, take aim at the fads of corporate culture. Dilbert has been a staple of the funny pages of American newspapers.
The USA Today network, which owns dozens of newspapers, and the Los Angeles Times are two media outlets that have stopped publishing the Dilbert comic strip.
The Washington Post claimed that Mr. Adams' comments encouraged segregation.
He responded to a poll asking participants whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: "It's OK to be white. " .
White supremacists have since used the phrase, which is thought to have first appeared in 2017 as part of a trolling campaign.
53 percent of respondents who identified as black agreed with the statement, while 26 percent disagreed and other respondents were unsure, according to the poll.
Those who disagreed, according to Mr. Adams, were a "hate group.".
According to how things are currently developing, he declared, "I would say the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people... because there is no fixing this.".
Black cartoonist Darrin Bell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, called Mr. Adams a disgrace.
First released in 1989, Dilbert is a comic strip written and illustrated by Mr. Adams.
