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Breeden agreed that her cartoon is “unusually similar” to Breen’s but said she has defended that piece in her conversations with Marra and Editorial Chairs Michael B. Broukhim ’07 and Matthew S. Meisel ’07 this week...
While further investigation yesterday uncovered another instance of similarity—between a cartoon Breeden drew last March and a Sept. 29, 2005, cartoon by Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant—the editors wrote that Breeden had been cleared in that case as well. Both cartoons depict former Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown with eight arms, although Breeden represents him as the Hindu god Ganesh...
Both Breeden and Ilyinsky will be invited to apply for a cartoon series or column at the start of the spring semester, Marra wrote. Breeden will continue to draw illustrations to accompany opinion pieces on the editorial page, he added...
...cartoons that were cited in your Oct. 30 editors’ note as exhibiting overt plagiarism, Breeden’s Oct. 25 cartoon is a particularly weak example. Professional cartoonist Daryl Cagle points out on his website that a “t-shirt or sign pointing at something with a comment ‘I’m with stupid’ is a recurring…theme” among cartoonists...
...also curious as to why the editorial staff felt it was necessary to mention Breeden’s Oct. 11 cartoon (with Kim Jong Il’s hair depicted as a mushroom cloud) when the editors’ note itself states that this image was employed by at least four different artists. Breeden’s only crime is that in a select few of her pieces she went for an obvious gag, an offense quite common in editorial cartooning, worthy of a reprimand, at most, but certainly not a pink slip...