Whatever Happened to Steve Breen?
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The short answer to the headline question is: Nothing.
Though readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune may have thought otherwise.
Rick Griffin of the Times of San Diego catches up with former Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen:
It was Saturday, Oct. 18 of this year when The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial pages included an editor’s note at the top of page B-6 that said, “Welcome back, Steve Breen! The cartoonist from Encinitas who won a Pulitzer Prize while with the Union-Tribune in 2006 returns to our pages today after a two-year absence.”
So, why did the U-T say that Breen had been absent for two years? In July 2023, when the U-T’s new owners offered buyouts to longtime reporters and editors, Breen accepted.
A few months later, in Oct. 2023, Breen joined inewsource, a San Diego online investigative news service as an editorial cartoonist. He recently left inewsource and to serve as director of communications for Cathedral Catholic High School.
“I’ve never stopped producing content for Creators.com,” said Breen. “My guess is that someone at the U-T decided — for whatever reason — not to run my cartoons from Creators.com during the two years I was with inewsource.
“So, when someone thinks that I’ve been `absent,’ my response is similar to Mark Twain’s quote, ‘the reports of my absence are greatly exaggerated.’ I’m still alive and enjoying life and my career more than ever at the high school.”
Steve Breen’s editorial cartoons can be read at the Creators website or at GoComics.
Steve’s weekly Caption It! contest is also available from Creators or from Arcamax.
And you can get Steve Breen straight to your inbox via his Cartoonishness Substack.
So Steve remains as active as ever.
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