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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette moved to Hillsborough in the early 1990s and in 2001 was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His first novel, The Bridge (2001), offended some of the writers who had also made their homes in Hillsborough.
Source: The Carrboro Citizen: Doug Marlette dies in crash (July 12, 2007)
1949–2007 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Portrait of cartoonist Doug Marlette in his Hillsborough studio, August 2002. Marlette drew editorial cartoons and the comic strip 'Kudzu'. Color 35 mm negative by Hugh Morton.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Marlette, Doug, 1949-2007.
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Doug Marlette's editorial cartoons on national politics in the Reagan years, drawn for The Charlotte Observer and then The Atlanta Constitution, where he won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. Peachtree of Atlanta published the collection in 1988; 159 oblong pages. Marlette, born in Greensboro and creator of the strip 'Kudzu', later split his time between Tulsa and Hillsborough and was buried near Hillsborough after his death in 2007.
Editorial cartoons by Doug Marlette on American and world politics, collected by Plan Nine Publishing of High Point in 2003; 184 pages, mostly drawings. Marlette, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who also created the comic strip Kudzu, divided his time between Tulsa and Hillsborough and is buried near Hillsborough.
Editorial cartoons by Doug Marlette, then the Charlotte Observer's cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Kudzu, taking aim at national politics of the early 1980s and at North Carolina's own. Published in Charlotte by Willnotdee Press in 1984 as a first edition; 172 pages, mostly drawings. Marlette won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1988.
A collection of Kudzu, Doug Marlette's daily comic strip about rural Southerners, gathering strips about clergy and preaching, home ground for its preacher, the Reverend Will B. Dunn. Plan Nine Publishing of High Point issued it in 2004 as a small oblong book of 152 pages. Marlette, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, divided his time between Tulsa and Hillsborough and is buried near Hillsborough.
A collection from Kudzu, Doug Marlette's comic strip about Kudzu Dubose and the townspeople of Bypass, North Carolina, drawn from its first decade after the strip began in June 1981. Marlette, born in Greensboro and raised partly in Durham, worked as an editorial cartoonist in Charlotte and Atlanta and won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. Pat Conroy wrote the introduction. Times Books, 1992; 186 pages of strips, some in color.
Doug Marlette's cartoons on preaching, the clergy and church life, featuring the Reverend Will B. Dunn, the loud, worldly minister of his comic strip 'Kudzu'. Dunn's name puns on 'thy will be done', and Marlette, who lived from 1949 to 2007, modeled him on the Baptist minister and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell. Peachtree Publishers of Atlanta issued the collection in 1987, 109 unnumbered pages of drawings.
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