Kudzu was a daily comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette about rural Southerners.

[1] The title came from the kudzu vine which was introduced to the Southern United States (and initially encouraged) as a soil erosion control plant, but soon became an out-of-control invasive species.

[3] Marlette was killed in a car accident on July 10, 2007, in Marshall County, Mississippi.

Will B. Dunn, Ida Mae Wombat, Veranda Tadsworth and NASCAR Dad.

Comics historian Don Markstein described the strip's characters: Will B. Dunn (the name is a play on the phrase "thy will be done", spoken by Jesus Christ at the Garden of Gethsemane), was modeled, at least in clothing and appearance, on Will D. Campbell, a preacher, director of religious life at the University of Mississippi, civil rights activist (the only white man in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and author.