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The author wants to portray their character as a loser, but doesn't want to offend people in any particular occupation. So they make the character's occupation their own. This allows for a lot of [[Self Deprecating Humor]], which is probably the whole point.
[[Bonus Points]] if the loser cartoonist [[Terrible Artist|can't draw]], the writer [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue|has an obviously Mary-Sue version of him/herself]], or some other type of [[Stylistic Suck]]. These characters may also be prone to extreme [[
This '''must''' be where a character's career is the same as the ''author'' of the work. A hack novelist main character in a novel would be an example, but a hack novelist in an animated show or a cartoonist in a novel would not be.
Compare [[Acceptable Targets]], [[
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==▼
* The two protagonists in ''[[Bakuman。 (Manga)|Bakuman。]]'' start off not so much as losers but as utterly normal high schoolers. Mashiro's uncle, [[Posthumous Character|who is dead when the story starts]], fits this trope a lot more.▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
▲* The two protagonists in ''[[
== [[Comics]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An extreme example on ''[[
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** There's also Liz Lemon, who is basically [[Tina Fey]] but with a crappy love life and no respect from her peers. The other writers in the show are depicted as frat boys with the maturity of 12-year-olds.
* On ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]"', Chuck Shirley, pen name "Carver Edlund" after directors and producers of the show, is a loser prophet and a writer. Then again, the last episode of the fifth season implies that he could actually be God, so...
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' did this a bit, both belittling Jerry's stand-up act and writing for a sitcom. Another take on "[[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]" here.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Egoraptor portrays himself as a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] in the ''[[Awesome Series]]''. In ''[[Girlchan in Paradise]]'', his [[Author Avatar]] is ''extremely lazy'',<ref>his stage background is a single line representing the horizon</ref>
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
* Andy from ''[[Mission Hill]]'' is another example. There was even an episode dedicated to the fact that Andy was broke, couldn't get any of his cartoons published, couldn't even get anyone to ''understand'' his cartoons, and was working a dead-end job that barely even put food on the table.
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