Morgan Delt is a failed irresponsible leftist artist and son of communist parents who own a fish and chips shop in downmarket London.

He succeeded with the introduction of Ray Dominguez, a failed artist who was briefly Maggie's boyfriend and went on to star in many of his own stories.

The biggest sorrow of his life is his father, a failed artist and civil servant who spends most of his time in the bathroom lancing his pimples.

His second, "Wolf Dreams" (2003), is about disillusionment, the deadly noose that can turn a failed artist into an assassin.

He said he saw Benton as "a failed artist."

Nicholas, contrary to Constance's continued delusion, is a failed artist, and his marriage to Nina is crumbling.

The loquacious, likable Werfel was either a failed major artist or a decent polygraph with splendid aspirations.

She drops him - only to succumb to the advances of his even wimpier father, Gert, a failed artist.

In the play, the drunk's father is a failed artist and his mother was a drug addict.