![]() ![]() The Swedish edition of MAD Magazine ran a comic in the early '80s set in Konstfack, the University Of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. ![]() Kuno Klecksel from Wilhelm Busch's stories, sometimes.Dwight, an aspiring photographer had the same problem with the same boss. He refuses and barely has enough cash to scrape together. Wallace from Sin City is an artist who has a great deal of talent but his perverted boss demands that he make pornographic artwork.As the series progresses, he becomes better at taking care of himself. All his friends and neighbors comment on how underweight he looks, too. He winds up reflexively eating a bowl of Haru's catfood after she becomes so worried about him that she pushes it over to him after he collapses. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs and he ends up passing out due to lack of food the first time we see this. Subaru in My Roommate is a Cat is this because he's The Shut-In who gets so fixated on trying to meet his deadlines as a writer that he forgets to eat (or sleep).He works part-time as a pizza delivery driver to help make ends meet in the meantime. He's had one hit manga but has mostly been in a slump, with his editor telling him that his stories don't seem to connect for some reason. In Gate, Risa is a doujinshi artist, but she can barely afford to pay her electric and heating bills and often has nothing to eat but soy milk and cereal.Few later he's "hired" by Cere Cere, who has targeted him under the disguise of a Rich Bitch when he refuses to make a portrait of her on the grounds that there's something fake in her beauty and he won't paint it, she attacks him. In spite of its horrid appearance, he joyously scarfs it down. When he collapses in front of Usagi, she takes him home and (for only the second time) cooks curry. He was starving because his drawings were too realistic for people to believe them accurate (think self-delusion or inflated ego). One Victim of the Week in Sailor Moon Super S was this trope.She claims to have an income rivaling the top 3% of earners. Imuri is a world-renowned artist whose paintings are so beloved that she is said to be one of the wealthiest people in the world. Inverted in Make the Exorcist Fall in Love.To be fair, they were pretty painful to listen to, but it's unlikely that Clair, being the Smug Snake that he is, would have forgiven the debt even if the poet had written genuinely wonderful poems.) The poet gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Clair and is (literally) thrown out the door where his girlfriend is waiting. Clair agrees, on the condition that the poet writes him a poem that's to his liking. He tries pleading with Clair to allow him to either get an extension on the repayment or get the debt forgiven. Another character is a (supposedly talented) poet who borrowed money from The Mafia, ostensibly to work on his poems and make a better life for himself and his girlfriend, but ended up gambling it all away and having a huge debt to pay back.Incidentally, Kia once did lead a very comfortable and pampered life (also, Kia is not his birth name), until his father (a famous musician) fell victim to the Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll trope, and eventually left his wife when he got The Mistress pregnant, and started a new life with her, leaving Kia and his mother in the lurch. He works several odd jobs while trying to become a famous guitarist. As a result, the two of them frequently have cheap take-out and microwaveable food for meals. The Gods Lie: Natsuru Nanao's mother Ritsuko is a widow who tries to make money writing light novels each time we see her at home, she is suffering Writer's Block, and what little Natsuru gets to read indicates that he doesn't find her writings that interesting.They ended up buying a painting made by Nobita's father, who apprenticed under the artist as a college student. In Doraemon, the title character and Nobita go back in time to help a starving artist at least once, and on another occasion tried to use time travel to buy the works of a now-famous (and obscenely rich) painter. ![]()
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