Sad news to report
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Doug Marlette was killed in a car crash this morning in Mississippi. Marlette was a longtime resident of Hillsborough.
Via AJC:
Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and North Carolina native who once worked at The Charlotte Observer, was killed in a single-car accident Tuesday morning in Mississippi, authorities said. He was 57.
Marlette was the passenger in the car, which struck a tree in wet conditions just before 10 a.m., said John Garrison, the coroner in Mississippi’s Marshall County.
Doug Marlette’s Web site.