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“Kudzu” Cartoonist Doug Marlette Killed in Car Accident
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Doug Marlette was killed in a car accident Tuesday in Mississippi. The creator of the popular cartoon strip “Kudzu” was 57.
Marlette had been a passenger in a car that skidded off the road and struck a tree.
Mississippi’s Marshall County coroner John Garrison said “Evidently, it hydroplaned, left the highway and struck the tree.”
Marlette won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his work at The Charlotte Observer and the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Marlette had also worked at New York Newsday (1989-2002), The Tallahassee Democrat (2002-2006), and Tulsa World (2006-2007).
In 1991 Marlette published “In Your Face: A Cartoonist at Work” which revealed his personal account of the cartooning process. He released his first novel in 2001 “The Bridge” which was named Best Book of the Year for Fiction by the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) in 2002.
