Jul 15th, 2007 · Cartoonist Doug Marlette was on his way to meet with high schoolers in Oxford, Miss., on Tuesday when he was killed in a car crash. The students will perform a musical based on Marlette's Kudzu comic strip next month in Scotland. They say the show will have new meaning now.
Jul 13th, 2007 · Editorial cartoonist and Kudzu comic-strip creator Doug Marlette died July 10 in a Mississippi car accident. He was 57. His skewering of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker helped earn him a Pulitzer Prize. This interview first aired on June 8, 1987.
Jul 10th, 2007 · Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, was killed Tuesday in a car crash in Mississippi. Marlette's editorial cartoons and his comic strip, "Kudzu," are syndicated worldwide. He was 57 years old.
Feb 3rd, 2007 · Corn can be made into ethanol, so why not kudzu, the non-native weed that grows at will throughout much of the southern U.S.? A high-school senior in Tallahassee, Fla., is working to turn kudzu into fuel.
May 18th, 2005 · Michele Norris talks with Dr. Scott E. Lukas about his paper in the May issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. The paper suggests that people who consume an extract made from the kudzu plant might have a reduced urge to consume alcohol.