Missed It: Unlikely Source of Support For Harried Harvard Crimson Cartoonist

One of the interesting things to come out of this week's story about a Harvard student newspaper cartoonist having a case of the "similarities" is that the cartonist was defended by some of her professional cartooning peers, particularly Daryl Cagle. This Harvard Crimson article has a fine write-up about the nature of that support, with the added potential humor of the paper that has employed the cartoonist unable to get this person on the record because they're unavailable (as opposed to declining to speak).

I think there's a point to be made that instances of similarity many people might see as copying can just be group think (more likely in editorial cartooning) or coincidence brought on by the sheer number of jokes being told (more likely in strip cartooning). With that point in mind, I think what may have fueled concern in this case is the number of instances involved, the similarity in staging and not just the joke in some of the cartoons, and logic that says while two 46-year-old guys might have enough in common in terms of background and experience to put out similar strips every now and then, this is somewhat less likely of a 46-year-old guy and a 19-year-old college student.
 
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