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Doug Marlette is an award-winning American editorial cartoonist and writer. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on December 6, 1949 and graduated from Florida State University. He and his wife Melinda maintain residences in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Hillsborough, North Carolina. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 394 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (555 × 845 pixel, file size: 97 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The Bridge, copyright 2001 Doug Marlette. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 394 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (555 × 845 pixel, file size: 97 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The Bridge, copyright 2001 Doug Marlette. ...
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. ...
Greensboro, North Carolina (IPA: ), is the largest city in Guilford County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ...
The Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[4] is a public research university located in Tallahassee, the capital city of Florida. ...
Nickname: Oil Capital of the World, Americas Most Beautiful City Location in the state of Oklahoma Coordinates: Country United States State Oklahoma Counties Tulsa, Osage, Wagoner, Rogers - Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) Area - City 483. ...
Hillsborough is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States. ...
He has 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-present). The Charlotte Observer, serving Charlotte, North Carolina and its metro area is the largest newspaper, in terms of circulation, in North Carolina. ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in Atlanta and its suburbs. ...
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Newsday is a daily tabloid-size newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City borough of Queens, although it is sold throughout the New York City metropolitan area. ...
The Tulsa World is the daily newspaper for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is the second-most widely circulated newspaper in the state, after The Oklahoman. ...
He writes and draws the nationally-syndicated comic strip Kudzu, which he started in 1981. Marlette collaborated with Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick of The Red Clay Ramblers on a musical adaptation of the Kudzu comic strip into Kudzu, A Southern Musical. This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ...
He has won every major award for editorial cartooning, including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the National Headliner Award for Consistently Outstanding Editorial Cartoons (three times), the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for editorial cartooning (twice), and First Prize in the John Fischetti Memorial Cartoon Competition (twice). He was the first and only cartoonist ever awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect. ...
The National Headliner Awards are a prize given out by Press Club of Atlantic City since 1935. ...
Nieman Fellowship is an award given to mid-career journalists by The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. ...
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[2] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ...
His Kudzu and editorial cartoons are collected in 19 volumes, including Faux Bubba: Bill and Hillary Go To Washington, Gone With The Kudzu, I Feel Your Pain!, What Would Marlette Drive?, and A Town So Backwards Even the Episcopalians Handle Snakes. His 1991 book, In Your Face: A Cartoonist at Work, is his personal account of the cartooning process.
In 2001 his first novel, The Bridge, was published by HarperCollins. The Bridge was named Best Book of the Year for Fiction by the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) in 2002. HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...
In 2006 his second novel, Magic Time, was published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux and has received substantial early critical praise, including a positive review by Christopher Dickey in The New York Times Book Review (October 27, 2006). Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. ...
Christopher Dickey, born August 31, 1951, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek magazine. ...
The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
He served as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2001-2002 academic year and was inducted into the UNC Journalism Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2006 he was appointed a Gaylord Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ...
University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma founded in 1890. ...
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