Many manga artist include cute or humorously drawn characters or mascots usually as in an afterword to volumes or acting as their spokesman when communicating directly with the reader, some are odd chibified versions of themselves with exaggerated features others are a talking banana.
either way they are a subtle and usually overlooked but important feature of the manga artform often retaining the same basic design for decades and across multiple series, art style and genre changes.
Lets compile somefamous or interesting ones.
Artist Avatars
Josiah Hall
Nolan Barnes
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Aaron Cook
Hiromu during the FMA live action screening used the cow to cover her face in the interview. It wsa pretty cute.
Henry Martinez
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Oliver Rogers
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Gabriel Nguyen
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Austin Edwards
Toriyama robot is the best
Zachary Young
pretty iconic
Hunter Rivera
bumpo for interest
Grayson Edwards
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Camden Gutierrez
>make lighthearted sol
>put self-insert cameos in every other chapter
We get it. You want to live in the super comfy world you've created and get pampered by foxgirls.
James Hall
This is proving to be quite a fun style
Joshua Hernandez
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Nicholas Sullivan
Typical patterns
A. Beautifully
B. Funnyly
C. ugly
D. With Sunglasses
E. Nonhuman (Animal / Robot)
F. Ordinary
Noah Rodriguez
G. Inanimate object marker
Zachary Morris
Crabman's avatar.
Joshua Kelly
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Chase Gutierrez
>female mangaka portrays herself as a loli in avatar
Nathaniel Ortiz
He used to be a bird too. Shows up 1st episode of dr slump and all
Chase Nguyen
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Oliver Mitchell
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Julian Wood
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Tyler Campbell
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John Long
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Lucas White
Each leg represents one of the members that comprise Namori.
Gavin Cruz
Here is the original.
Dylan Rivera
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Luke Rogers
better version
Asher Green
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Justin Fisher
Toriyama and his wife are cute.
Carter Rivera
Mai waifu.
Xavier Foster
Breadtsuena
Aiden Green
old stag beetle nihei
Evan Cooper
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Lucas Nguyen
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Christian Thompson
bump
Christopher Wilson
RIP
Jose Rogers
One of my favorite parts of Sidonia
Matthew Robinson
I love this.
Angel Diaz
Does he count?
Connor Sullivan
Hori´s avatar is pretty cool.
Dylan Cook
there are a lot of circles with eyes and some added distinguishing feature
Nicholas Cook
Kedama isn't well drawn or anything, but he's super moe
Lucas Walker
>manly wife
Chichi
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW DEEPEST LORE etc.
Juan Morgan
The model he made.
Joseph Barnes
Why the rat faggot? That's literally the worst character