Doug Marlette killed in crash

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.