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In 1998, Breen won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The Religion Communicator's Council honored Grand Avenue with the 1999 Wilbur Award. Presented each year to features that demonstrate excellence in communicating religious issues, values and themes in the public media, the Wilbur Award was presented to Breen in recognition of his sensitive treatment of racial, social and economic acceptance in Grand Avenue. Breen was also awarded the Scripps Howard Foundation's Charles M. Schulz Award for best college cartoonist and the John Locher Award for outstanding college editorial cartoonist, both in 1991.
Born in Los Angeles, Breen grew up in neighboring Orange County. The oldest of seven children, he earned a degree in political science from the University of California at Riverside in 1992. It was at UCR that Breen started drawing editorial cartoons for his school paper, The Highlander.
In 1994, Breen was about to become a high school history teacher when the Asbury Park Press offered him a job in their art department. He was the paper's full-time editorial cartoonist from 1996 to 2001. Breen is currently editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune. His cartoons appear regularly in Newsweek, The New York Times and USA Today and are nationally syndicated by Copley News Service.
Breen, his wife Cathy and their two young sons live in San Diego. When not cartooning, he enjoys playing the guitar, running and watching old movies.
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