At 08:42 PM 12/16/97 +1100, you wrote:

The recent thread on self-insertion has gotten me thinking of something...
could some characters in well-known manga be classified as self-insertion?

 I 

am interested in hearing what people think.

How about Johji Manabe (Outlanders, Caravan Kidd) He is always drawing
himself and his assistants into his comics (not as characters, but
characatures)

Alielle
Author of Solar Knights, and other assorted 'fics if I ever get around to it :)