#niall breen

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Top panel as taken from instagram:  niall.breen.comics: A private message of love. August 14, 2020

2nd panel:

niall.breen.comics: Out in the Rain. July 20, 2020

These are two panels by Niall Breen (@niall.breen.comics) who posts daily panels on their instagram page.  The comic frequently features Frog, Dog, and Bear as they explore what it means to be alive. What makes me consider this a queer comic is that the characters are referred to neutrally- with no gender specified. The characters explore topics like love, creativity, loneliness, and friendship, and are relatable on the basis of the personalities (and cuteness). It is easy to see yourself in any one of them regardless of your gender and sexuality. 

Also, the characters Frog and Dog are in a romantic relationship but as Niall Breen said “much of what I show of their life together could totally apply to platonic relationships...I think it's so important to show love to all the people you find dear, no matter the type of relationship. ❤️”. 

-Jenna K. 

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Niall Breen

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Update 12/9pm: Juniper and Niall spoke privately, and Juniper said he told her that he has never read CYELATM. She believes it was a misunderstanding and just wants to take responsibility. While I am, as of right now, skeptical about this considering the sheer amount of similarities, I understand that Juniper wants to limit harm to Niall as much as possible and for people to remove posts accusing him of theft. For the moment I’m putting this post behind a read more (I probably should have done that to begin with) and adding this note.

For the record, I don’t regret supporting Juniper and speaking out against the ugliness thrown her way. She shouldn’t have came out on her official social media to accuse him without trying to talk privately, and she’s apologized for doing so. I jumped the gun too in that respect. Intellectual artistic property theft is complex and in a lot of ways impossible to prove, so ultimately we all have to decide if Breen’s explanation is enough.

Juniper’s a wonderful person and CYELATM is such a gift of goodness to the world, and touched a lot of people - she’s had a huge influence over comics in general and on current “internet culture” and people trying to diminish her legacy are jerks! Also, due to the fucked up nature of social media (remember he’s got like 45K followers vs her 7K or something), plus the stress of trying to make a living off of free webcomics, and of course transmisogyny, Juniper’s faced the majority of the damage here. So if you’re a fan whose been upset about the whole situation and feel she acted badly, please consider reading her apologies on her social media accounts before you write her off. 

Oh I see how it is, throw a bunch of unrelated pictures of Niall Breen 1) not imitating CYELATM’s style and therefor demonstrating he CAN draw in other styles but chose to somehow accidentally duplicate Rosie and Isabelle’s silhouettes for his slice-of-life two-animal-cuties-in-love 4-panel gag comic, and 2) ripping off the Simpsons but it’s “art”, and .......... folks start harassing the woman who got ripped off in the first place. Lovely!

Cool to see how fast people are to turn on smaller accounts calling out plagiarism from larger accounts, cool to see how viciously people whip up a harassment campaign against a trans woman who has done her best to halt her own fans harassing Breen.

Where’s his apology for ripping her off again and again? Oh but I see, it’s like the Simpsons. It’s ironic, so it’s like. Deep and stuff. Oh wait I mean he didn’t steal anything, can’t you tell, because the words and art are a bit different. My mistake. And that wasn’t a Simpsons comic either, those were his original characters Bert and Mallhouse. Sheesh, the things people are willing to believe if it gives them the opportunity to attack someone they think gets too much positive attention.

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hey all, I updated my last post about Niall Breen with some further info - after apologizing and retracting her accusation of plagiarism earlier today, Juniper’s spoken to him privately and he says he’s never read CYELATM, and she wants to take him at his word. I’m leaving that post up with a note but thought I’d direct people that way as well. I want to respect her wishes though I have my own reservations so I’m going through my various posts and deciding whether to update/delete things.

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