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** Since his paintings can literally be used to cast spells, an 'old method' which Merriman notes he had forgotten existed, that makes this one of the few literal examples of [[The Dark Arts|Dark Arts]]. Some of this originality, though, may be undermined by the painter in question living [[Roma|in a Gypsy caravan]] which apparently is a mark of his actual racial heritage. (He even attempts to use the grail—no, not ''[[Public Domain Artifact|that]]'' [[Public Domain Artifact|grail]], though it is [[Expy|'made after the fashion of' it]]—as a scrying device.)

* The [[MacGuffin]] in Robert Asprin's novel ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth Directions]]'' is a hideous metal toad sculpture, the last piece done by a sculptor named Watgit "before" he went mad.

** Or that he ''was'' a giant chicken. He appears to have tried talking in Chicken, and even wrote some of his diary-like notes partly in Chicken.

*** Or possibly both. He was a Mad Artist after all. If you can't handle the idea of being afraid of a giant chicken and actually being the giant chicken you have no business appearing in this trope.

** {{spoiler|He died with chicken feathers stuffed down his throat. After writing "AWK! AWK! IT COMES!"}}

*** He was really impressed by the way the forged stamps actually had more detail than the printing process on the real stamps was capable of.

* Optus Warhole, in [[Enki Bilal]]'s ''trente-deux décembre''. His ?compression de mort éructée? happening uses the bodies of soldiers killed at war, and ends in slaughter.

* [[Winston Churchill]] who drank three scotches between breakfast and lunch alone, quaffed an entire bottle of Port before bed, only slept four hours, had a tendency to walk around naked and once turned up to a meeting wearing nothing but a pair of pink silk boxer shorts. Tended to alleviate his hellish bouts of depression by painting.

* Christian Weston Chandler, creator of ''Sonichu'', has some serious mental issues.

 

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