Kudzu has become known as the plant that ate the South, because of its incredible ability to grow a foot a day. But it's also the name of an awkward adolescent poet out of sync with his environment ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, the irreverent creator of the "Kudzu" comic strip, died on Tuesday in a Mississippi car crash, his newspaper said. The ...