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...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...
...Surely you’ve heard the term by now—several cartoonists give birth to the same idea, usually all at once. Your cartoonist seems to have jumped on board a slow train to Yahtzee-ville with her depiction of Kim’s mushroom cloud hair...
...First of all, it coincides with the moment when the cloud slices the moon...it’s kind of a statement about associations and metaphor, cutting an eye is like a cloud slicing the moon,” she says. “And then it’s also about filmmaking. You can argue that the cut is what filmmaking is about. So Buñuel puts himself in it I think partially as a commentary on film. Film is a cut. And also he had a theory that film should be a kind of violence...
...Life Initiative, answered FM’s rather-forward question. Let’s see. I would say that seven billion years ago a previous star that was the ancestor of the sun went through a supernova dispersing its newly-formed elements into the galaxy, and then the protostellar cloud that would later become the sun collapsed out of this material, and planets formed around that newly formed star, and those elements are the stuff of which we’re made today. That’s how my life began. —Melissa Tran
Breen and Cagle both said that one of the examples cited in The Crimson yesterday, Breeden’s Oct. 11 cartoon showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with a mushroom cloud rising from his head, does not constitute plagiarism. Eight similar cartoons are posted on Cagle’s blog, including one by Cagle himself...