Article: Tulsa World welcomes Kudzu strip to its comics pages.

Byline: Jason Collington

Feb. 19--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 who's featured in a daily comic strip.

That strip makes its debut in the Sunday comics pages of the Tulsa World on Feb. 26. It debuts in the daily comics Monday.

Chronicling how this 17-year-old and his friends deal with their world is how the Tulsa World's Doug Marlette spends his afternoons.

In the mornings, the Pulitzer-Prize winner is busy creating his daily, syndicated political cartoons, which ...

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