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3	[[MostWritersAreWriters Most comic book artists draw comic books]]. As a result, it's a common occupation or hobby for characters in media. These characters are typically very GenreSavvy or WrongGenreSavvy and possibly FourthWall-breaker. Most often they are aspiring Comic Artists / {{Mangaka}} who work on {{Sequential Art}}works ({{Comics}}, {{Doujin}}, or {{Manga}}) to sell at {{Fan Convention}}s. Sometimes these can take the form of an AuthorAvatar relating problems they had or have making their work. They tend to have a penchant for {{Cosplay}} generally as the characters in their own works, or works they're fans of.
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5	In Japan, they are more often [[MostFanficWritersAreFemale Female]] and are often {{Yaoi Fan Girl}}s. Males are far more common in the Western world thanks to the western idea that ComicBooks are for boys.
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7	A common Superpower for these characters is ArtInitiatesLife.
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10	!!Examples:
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14	[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
15	* Creator/CoolKyouShinsha has had multiple mangaka across his various series that range from {{doujinshi}} (Mayotama and Miki in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'', Takiya and Fafnir in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''), to hentai (Mizuki in ''Paranoia Cage''), to mainstream manga (Yuzu from ''Metsuko ni Yoroshiku'')
16	* There are a few mangaka characters in ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'', whose philosophizing about manga is a reflection of the author's own opinions.
17	* ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'''s entire premise is two teenagers forming a two-person mangaka team, with one as the artist and the other as the storywriter. They publish manga at the Magazine/ShonenJump, aiming for their series to become an anime. Several characters are also manga authors publishing their own series in the same magazine.
18	* ''Manga/EvenAMonkeyCanDrawManga'' tells the tale of a loser aspiring to draw a successful manga. It's a parody of "How to draw manga" books, the Japanese comic industry, the conventions and cliches of manga, and generally very apt.
19	* The main character of ''Manga/{{Freesoul}}'', Keito, is an aspiring mangaka.
20	* The protagonist of ''Manga/IAmAHero'' works as an assistant manga artist in the beginning of the series, though he strives to one day become a professional mangaka in his own right. These plans are interrupted by an ill-timed ZombieApocalypse, however.
21	* Rohan Kishibe of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] is a mangaka. His struggles as an artist are shown in his own spinoff chapters, and he also very briefly cameos close to the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]]. Creator/HirohikoAraki says that Rohan ''isn't'' meant to be his AuthorAvatar, but fans have their suspicions anyway.
22	* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' has Umetaro Nozaki, the eponymous "Nozaki-kun," who writes under the PenName of Sakiko Yumeno.
23	* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', Harumi Fujiyoshi specifically is a [[YaoiFanGirl Yaoi]] Doujin artist with an obsession with pairings. First seen drawing by hand but by season 2 she upgrades to digital.
24	%%* Aki Hinata in ''Manga/SgtFrog'' is a %%manga editor, and thus will often make %%reference to manga tropes, and uses the %%Keroro Platoon as inspiration for new %%manga.
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27	[[folder: Comic Books]]
28	* ''ComicBook/AngelAndTheApe'': Sam Simeon is an intelligent comic book artist who happens to be a talking gorilla.%%??????
29	* Steve Rogers (aka ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) is a professional illustrator and cartoonist, and at one time was the writer/artist for the in-universe Captain America comic book.
30	* Franchise/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner is a professional comic book artist and writer. If he's fighting alongside other Lanterns, this tends to be shown as influencing his style of combat.
31	* Scribbly, the main character in what would [[SpotlightStealingSquad later become]] the Golden Age ''ComicBook/RedTornado'' strips, was a young boy who wandered around his neighbourhood drawing cartoons of what was happening. In the later DC mythos, Scribbly went on to work for a newspaper as a cartoonist. Granted, the strip was meant to be semi-autobiographical...
32	* ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac, who started out as an AuthorAvatar (but was NOT actually meant to be Creator/JhonenVasquez), was once a talented artist now fallen to drawing the [[MindScrew deranged]] stick figure comics of [[TalkativeLoon Happy Noodle Boy]]. The worse Nny's mental condition [[CreatorBreakdown deteriorates]], the [[RealitySubtext less sense his comics make]]. Meanwhile, Nny's ex-girlfriend [[WeirdnessMagnet Devi]] gets a job painting illustrations for Nerve Publishing's books, which is an absolutely horrible place to work at that [[CorruptCorporateExecutive actively tries to break creativity]]. Naturally, the latter was written [[TakeThat when Vasquez was still working for]] Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}.
33	* After Creator/AlanMoore retooled ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' as a homage to ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', the Clark-Kent-equivalent character was a comic book artist, and the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen equivalents were comic book writers.
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37	* In ''Film/SecondhandLions'' Walter grows up to be a comic strip artist, with a strip called "Walter and Jasmine", about a boy and his pet lion, which he based on his own experiences as a child.%%??????????????????????????????
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40	[[folder: Live Action TV]]
41	* ''Series/CarolineInTheCity'' focused around the life of cartoonist Caroline Duffy.%%??????
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44	[[folder: Newspaper Comics]]
45	* The father in the somewhat-autobiographical family in ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' is a cartoonist.
46	* Jon Arbuckle from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' is officially a cartoonist, but he's [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything almost never shown doing his job]].
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49	[[folder: Webcomics]]
50	* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' focuses on [[PunnyName Art]], a Sequential Artist.
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