Doug Marlette
Doug Marlette (December 6, 1949 in Greensboro, North Carolina, † 10 July 2007 in Holly Springs, Mississippi) was an American cartoonist and writer.
He studied at Florida State University. He and his wife, Melinda lived primarily in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He died in a car accident near Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Cartoonist
He worked for the following newspapers: The Charlotte Observer (1972-1987), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1987-1989), New York Newsday (1989-2002), The Tallahassee Democrat (2002-2006), and Tulsa World (2006 -2007 ).
He wrote and drew the comic published in various American newspapers Kudzu, which he published in 1981 for the first time. Marlette worked with Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick of the Red Clay Ramblers together and made from the comic of the same musical Kudzu, A Southern Musical.
He won all the prestigious awards for cartoonists in USA, including the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1988 ), the National Headliner Award for consistently outstanding cartoons (three times), the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for cartoons (twice) and the first prize in the John Fischetti Cartoon Competition Memorial (twice). He was the first and only cartoonist who was awarded the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
His figure Kudzu and other cartoons were published in 19 volumes.