Many cartoonists who flourished since the mid-Showa period may have had experience living in a lodging house or an 'apart' at some point in the past, because being a comic artist was not a profitable business at that time.
昭和中期より活躍している漫画家には、当時の漫画はあまり儲からなかったため、下宿やアパート生活経験者も少なからずいるようだ。