THE SPEAKERS NETWORK GAINS EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATION FOR POLITICAL CARTOONIST & KUDZU" CREATOR, DOUG MARLETTE.

Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist and author, Doug Marlette, is gaining momentum as a speaker for corporations and associations around the country. The Speakers Network, a Charlotte-based speakers bureau, will be exclusively representing Marlette as he continues to speak for groups around the country.

(PRWEB) August 16, 2003 -- Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and author, Doug Marlette, is gaining momentum as a speaker for corporations and associations around the country. The Speakers Network, a Charlotte-based speakers bureau, will be exclusively representing Marlette as he continues to speak for groups around the country.

The relationship precedes the upcoming release of 2 cartoon collections in September from Plan Nine Publishers: WHAT WOULD MARLETTE DRIVE?", a collection of political cartoons focusing on the controversies surrounding Marlette, including the recent What Would Mohammed Drive?" cartoon (copy attached), and A TOWN SO BACKWARDS EVEN THE EPISCOPALIANS HANDLE SNAKES."

The Speakers Network plans to promote Marlette as a keynote speaker for meetings, conventions and library events. He also hosts several workshops on creativity. The Cumberland County Library in Fayetteville will be hosting Marlette in October.

His presentation walks through the creative process and the secrets of nourishing a voracious personal creativity. Owner of The Speakers Bureau, Missy Weld, says, He inspires audience members to move forward in fresh and imaginative ways, illustrating his comments with his prize-winning cartoons." Marlettes formula for working on deadline and keeping up the original ideas on a daily basis transfers to the pressures of corporate life.

Speaking topics include Sacred Cows/Holy Hamburger", Taming Your Inner Ayatollah", Why Nice Isnt Nice: Learning to trust your instincts," and Inward Bound: Unlocking Your Natural Creativity."

Marlette is one of the nations most provocative political and social commentators, cartoonists and authors. He has been skewering the likes of Jesse Helms, Hillary Clinton, and Jim and Tammy Bakker since he began his career at the Charlotte Observer in 1971. His cartoons are seen in papers and magazines around the world and his comic strip, Kudzu" is syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide. His novel, The Bridge, won the 2002 Best Book Award for Fiction from the Southeast Booksellers Association and Paramount Pictures purchased the rights for a film adaptation for Tom Cruise.

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