I mean they've clearly seen it before, just asking if this version came from the same creator as the original. I wondered the same thing. Also, way to not answer the question in a very verbose way lol
If the CAD guy had made it himself it would have been icredibly darkly funny insightful and empathic.
But turns out another guy had the incredible creativity and the skills to do it in a way that look almost as if it where original. Whoever it is still Kudos.
The original creator has accepted the meme treatment of his original comic, so I wouldn’t consider it beyond the pale for him to do a bit of self parody for a current political issue.