From Cagle.com:

DOUG MARLETTE KILLED IN CAR WRECK

RIP

I’m sad to report that the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for the Tulsa World, Doug Marlette, died today in a single car accident in Mississippi. Read an article on the Charlotte Observer site. Doug was formerly the cartoonist for the Observer, the Tallahassee Democrat, New York Newsday and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Doug was 57. That’s Doug’s last cartoon, above.

Doug was a great cartoonist. I’ve been reading him for years and, this is rare, he returned emails, whether praise or criticism, even from people who don’t live where his newspaper is printed. I’ll certainly miss Doug’s work and his witty retorts when I was being an ass via email.