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Does not include overarching [[Signature Style]] elements of a body of work, [[Signature Shot|Signature Shots]], or ''explicit'' [[Iconic Logo]] trademarks, such as [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s silhouette or Walt Disney's signature. If the Thumbprint suggests some kind of kink or fetish on the part of the creator, then it's [[Author Appeal]].

 

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* [[Naoki Urasawa]] is a noted Germanophile, which is very noticeable giving the settings of his work: Large parts of ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'', ''[[Master Keaton]]'', and ''[[Pluto]]'' are set in Germany.

* [[Antique Bakery|Yoshinaga Fumi's]] works are very well regarded for their nuanced and fully realized characters. Yet for some reason all of these characters, no matter their profession or past, share the ability to speak for paragraphs about all the little details behind the [[Food Porn|delicious, mouthwatering dishes]] that always pop up.

** Also there seems to be a tendency towards aircraft and anything in the air, and perhaps the military.

* Keiichi Sigsawa, author of ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' and ''[[Allison and Lillia]]'', goes out of his way to profile in entirely unnecessary detail every weapon and vehicle that comes up, regardless of whether it is important to the plot. And as if that weren't enough, even his ''pen name'' is based on [http://www.sigsauer.com/Default.aspx a gun brand].

* Akira Toriyama of [[Dragonball]] fame has a thing for vehicles. Give the Dragonball manga a lookthrough and count how many of the chapter cover pages not directly related to the storyline feature some kind of detailed vehicle.

** [[Lampshaded]] in an [[Omake]] of his ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' manga, where Toriyama's editor calls him out for always drawing some sort of vehicle on the covers and asks him if the main character of the manga is a car.

* Eiichiro Oda of ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' fame very clearly ''loves'' afros. Not only do several major ''One Piece'' characters sport afros, but the story draws attention or uses the afro for comedy in almost every case:

** Gaimon, who is mistaken for a shrub;

* As a boy, [[Wes Craven]] was bullied by a kid named [[A Nightmare On Elm Street|Fred Krueger]]. Before this name became attached to Craven's most iconic baddie, his earlier film ''The Last House On The Left'' contains a villainous rapist named Krug.

* Screenwriter/director Richard Curtis seems to have a thing for Americans. Aside from the ''[[Bridget Jones]]'' films, which were adapted from another medium and was a collaboration with several other writers, every theatrically released film he's ever written has been a British comedy featuring at least one American character, though that maybe due to the UK cinematic convention of having an inexplicable American in the cast to coax the US market.

* The films of [[Guillermo Del Toro]] always include slime, aspects of clock punk (or at least, clocks), things in jars (often [[People Jars]]), and references to Roman Catholicism. The supernatural is extremely common, and he's also greatly interested in the [[Spanish Civil War]].

** In a documentary made for the 2002 ''[[Back to The Future]]'' DVD, Zemeckis said he always felt the best [[Time Travel]] stories were ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Seven years later, he came out with his own version of the latter.

** Which brings us to [[Motion Capture]].

** Most have at least one scene with a speeding vehicle (''[[THX 1138 (Film)|THX 1138]]'', ''[[American Graffiti]]'', ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)|Star Wars]]'' movies, ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'', etc.). Though this may have less to do with [[Author Appeal]] and more to do with the majority of his films being action films, where speeding vehicles can be expected.

** The number 327 is also frequently encountered, although it's not clear why. One theory is that Lucas' first car was a Chevy 327.

** And speaking of [[Pixar]], nearly every film by the company will contain a reference to Pizza Planet or A113 (more info under Western Animation).

* [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first film, ''[[Duel (Film)|Duel]]'', used a dinosaur roar sound effect as the tanker truck goes over the cliff, which he has incorporated into the climax of just about every film he's made ever since.

* British comedian [[Rik Mayall]] seems to like politics. Various references to the subject pop up in pretty much every episode of ''[[The Young Ones]]'', ''[[Filthy Rich and Catflap]]'' and ''[[Bottom]]''. So playing the lead role in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' must have been a dream come true for him.

* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]--both the actor and character--likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].

* [[Bryan Fuller]] likes the macabre like fish like water: ''two'' of his shows (''[[Dead Like Me]]'' and ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'') have used death as a metaphor for adulthood. He loves giving his female leads [[Tomboyish Name|tomboyish names]], for whatever reason.

* Steve Smith, co-creator, producer and co-head writer of ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', seems to be a car buff in real life and many of the show's gags involve cars and trucks of some sort. [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] and [[Take That|Take Thats]] directed at various makes and models (the Chrysler K-Car is a recurring target) are an additional [[Easter Egg]] for automotive aficionadoes.

** [[Robert Holmes]]: cynicism (sometimes to localised [[Crapsack World]] levels), "double act" guest characters, [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] references to intestinal gas, references to Earth-Humans as "Tellurians", bureacratic villains, [[Nightmare Fuel]].

** [[Pip And Jane Baker]]: [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]], anvillicious green Aesops

** [[Barry Letts]]: Buddhism, environmentalism

** [[Russell T Davies]]: LGBT allusions, family members woven into plot, people named "Smith" and "Jones", self-aware [[Camp]].

 

== Multi-Media ==

* [[Nick Cave]] loves flowers, violence, [[Nightmare Fuel]], poetry, and religious debate. He also enjoys portraying the [[Deep South]], although it would be a stretch to say that he loved it.

* Glenn Danzig enjoys singing about death, Satan, and demons.

* [[Pink Floyd (Music)|Pink Floyd]]'s Roger Waters' father, a pacifist, was killed in [[World War Two]] in 1944 in Anzio, Italy. This was a pivotal event in Roger's life. As a result, themes of war, politics, miscommunication and mortality often occur in his work in Pink Floyd and as a solo artist, especially starting with [[The Wall]].

** Other common [[Pink Floyd (Music)|Pink Floyd]] / Waters themes include madness, the music industry and [[Drugs Are Bad|the dangers of recreational drugs]], all of which played a part in the breakdown of founder Syd Barrett, and reocurred after the band's success in [[The Seventies]].

 

 

* ''[[Girly]]'' features a lot of kitties. The creator has mentioned that he loves cats.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'''s author has mentioned a few times how cool he thinks it would be to have a Zombie Head On A Stick. This probably explains why the characters acquired one, have been dragging it around with them, and will defend it to the death, despite the facts that Z.H.O.A.S. (its name) adds nothing to the plot and the joke got old months ago.

* ''[[Living With Insanity]]'': The writer's projects all have couples in them. According to the blog posts, LWI would include more gaming and comic references, but the artist avoids jokes he doesn't understand.

* [[Andrew Hussie]] likes including horses, or horselike creatures such as centaurs, [[MS Paint Adventures|in]] [[Problem Sleuth (Webcomic)|his]] [[Homestuck (Webcomic)|work]], more often than not exaggerated in musculature (he also paid good money for a picture of a flaming stallion facing a football player, and used to do ironic reviews of muscular horse porn). When questioned about this, he responded that "horses are funny". He also seems to be very fond of hip-hop/rap and the culture surrounding it, perhaps best exemplified with ''[http://www.andrewhussie.com/comic.php?sec=archive&auth=Andrew&cid=aids/00000.jpg And It Don't Stop]''.

== Web Original ==

* There's an unclickable "Joy of Painting" toon on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' that shows Marzipan dressed as Bob Ross painting a picture of a mountain landscape. Matt and Mike Chapman, creators of ''Homestar Runner'', admitted that they only did this because they thought showing [[Granola Girl]] Marzipan with a beard would be funny.

* How else do you explain the contortion scenes in ''[[Sapphire (Literature)|Sapphire]] Episode III''?

* [http://www.asstr.org/files/Authors/SD40ka/ SD40ka] ([[NSFW]] porn-hosting site): His stories (and it's definitely a "he") often enough star a male computer programmer, who marries/is married to a genius woman, and either or both of them recently served America ''proudly'' in Iraq thank-you-very-much. The characters are ''always'' staunch political conservatives, often actively reshaping the fictional universe into a Republican Paradise. He plugs that his (genius!) characters love the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute Cato Institute] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhall.com Townhall.com,] just in passing. There's even the occasional [[Easy Evangelism]] of a [[Strawman Political|merely misguided (rather than Evil) liberal]]. And everyone accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, without whom there was a great big hole in their hearts. In fact, it's a lot like [[Jack Chick]], only with lots of monogamous sex with [[Biggus Dickus|big penises]].

* [[Doug Walker]] ''really'' has a thing for broken, insane jerks who'll never get what they want but they'll keep on trying. [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] is a perfect example of this, and [[Ask That Guy With the Glasses (Web Video)|Ask That Guy With the Glasses]] is getting there (as a more depraved version) with the amount of [[Sanity Slippage]] he's been put through.

 

 

** Not to mention main characters who logically shouldn't be able to talk but do. Like Stewie, Klaus, and Tim the bear.

* Brad Bird works the number A113--a reference to a room at CalArts used by animation and graphic design students--into all of his projects: ''Family Dog'', ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' episodes, ''[[The Iron Giant]]'', ''[[The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]''. This has since become a widespread animation in-joke.

 

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