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Line 2: 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 [[~~Writers~~Writer's Block]], which can justify the times that they aren't working/don't have a job. 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]], [[~~Take That Me~~Self-Deprecation]], [[Write What You Know]] and especially [[Writers Suck]]. {{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == [[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 ''[[~~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. == [[Comics]] == Line 20 ⟶ 22: == [[Film]] == * In ''[[~~Allegro Non Troppo (Animation)\|~~Allegro Non Troppo]]'', all of the animation is supposedly being made by one lowly cartoonist shackled to his desk. == [[Literature]] == Line 26 ⟶ 28: == [[Live Action TV]] == * An extreme example on ''[[~~Thirty~~30 Rock ~~(TV)~~\|Thirty Rock]]''::Jack directly parodies Alec Baldwin's career. An approximate quotation: {{quote\| "And it doesn't matter if you do movies about important things like sick puppies and the Holocaust... the moment you go on TV, nobody will ever take you seriously again."}} ** 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. Line 38 ⟶ 40: == [[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>, he is defeated as easily as most other members of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], and he gets the worst beating of any character in the series. == [[Western Animation]] == * In ''[[The Simpsons (~~Animation~~animation)\|The Simpsons]]'', the creator of ''[[The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'' is betrayed and turned into a ''bum'', though a [[Jerk ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold]], eventually. The guy who does the ripping off, Roger Myers Jr., although extremely successful, is shown to be amoral, cruel to his employees (insulting them and [[George Jetson Job Security\|sacking them on a whim]]) and utterly uninterested in the quality of the series as long as ratings and profits are high. Other famous "artists" are near universally egotists or hacks, such as [[Hates the Job, Loves ~~The~~the Limelight\|Krusty]]. * 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. Line 49 ⟶ 51: [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Insult Tropes]] [[Category:Creator Career Self -Deprecation]]