“Kudzu” cartoonist Doug Marlette, 57
Posted: Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 3:15 pm
Doug Marlette, the North Carolina-born cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize and created the popular strip ”Kudzu,” was killed in a car accident Tuesday morning in Mississippi, authorities said. He was 57.
Marlette, who joined the Tulsa (Okla.) World last year, was the passenger in the car, which struck a tree after skidding on a rain-slicked road, said John Garrison, the coroner in Mississippi’s Marshall County. …
Marlette’s editorial cartoons and his strip, ”Kudzu,” are syndicated worldwide. The ”Kudzu” strip deals humorously with rural Southern life, featuring characters such as the Rev. Will B. Dunn.
Born in Greensboro, Marlette began drawing political cartoons for The Charlotte Observer in 1972.
He won the Pulitzer in 1988 for his editorial cartooning in both Charlotte and at the Atlanta Constitution, which he had joined the year before. … Read full obituary
