One solution is to have the artist play a lightly fictionalized version of him/her.

In the movie he appears as a fictionalized version of himself.

The strip is a fictionalized version of Dunne's life as a child in the late 1960s.

The film relocates the play's events to a fictionalized version of Britain in the 1930s.

This is a fictionalized version of Wells's life, but the events in it are based on real ones.

And as I said last week, it felt to me like our podcast, a fictionalized version of the stuff we talk about.

A few films based on fictionalized versions of true stories have become Christmas specials themselves.

Yes, Virginia is a fictionalized version of her story.

He also joined the cast as a fictionalized version of himself.

But that fictionalized version of Andersen's life is no longer welcome here.