Coming up this weekend here in Charlotte is the Charlotte Comicon, organized by our buddies Dave Hinson and Rick Fortenberry. It’s a one-day show being held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located at 201 S. McDowell St., this Sunday, July 15, 2007 from 10am – 4pm. You can find a guest list and more info at their website. SPECIAL OFFER! We’ve just been informed by the show promoters that you can print this post out, bring it in to the show, and they’ll give you $1 off admission! Now that’s nice–thanks, guys!

We are saddened to report that Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Doug Marlette was killed this morning in single car accident, as reported on The Charlotte Observer’s website. Besides being one of the most recognizable names in editorial cartooning for decades, with work for The Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Newsday and more, Marlette was the creator of the long running Kudzu newspaper strip, as well as author of two novels. He was a guest of ours at HeroesCon ‘96, along with strip artists Marcus Hamilton, Jim Scancarelli, and the late Fred Lasswell. We first learned of the accident through Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter blog.