Doug Marlette Dies
Sphere: Related ContentDoug 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.
“Evidently, it hydroplaned, left the highway and struck the tree,” Garrison said.
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The World said Marlette is survived by his wife, Melinda, and an adult son, Jackson. He divided his time between homes in Tulsa and in Hillsborough, N.C.