棒がいっぽん

by Fumiko Takano, 高野文子

「棒がいっぽん-」それは、物語が始まる合言葉。『COMICアレ!』に掲載された最新作「奥村さんのお茄子」をはじめ、6作品を収録。独特の感覚で身近な生活を描く。

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels

204 pages, 単行本

Published July 1, 1995

About the author

Fumiko Takano (高野文子, Takano Fumiko) is a Japanese cartoonist. She is considered an important figure of the manga 'New Wave' of the late 70's and early 80's.
Takano got interested in making manga in high school, when she discovered the influential work of Moto Hagio. She later moved to Tokyo, where she studied to become a nurse and worked as such for a couple of years. During that time, she continued drawing amateur manga (doujinshi).
Her professional debut happened in 1979, when her story Zettai Anzen Kamisori was published in 'June', an alternative manga magazine coming out of the doujinshi scene. She also collaborated with more mainstream shōjo manga magazines, like 'Petit Flower' and 'Seventeen', while working as a secretary at the small publisher Kitansha.
Starting from the late 80's, Takano became a full time cartoonist. Her most notable works from this period are the series Lucky Jō-chan no Atarashii Shigoto (1986–1987) and Ruki-san (1988–1992). In the following decade she only produced short stories, collected in the books Bō ga Ippon (1995) and Kiiroi Hon (2002). After a long hiatus, Takano came back to manga with the web comic Dimitri Tomkins (2014).
Well known in Japan as a pioneer of literary manga from a female perspective, Takano is relatively unknown abroad, with only a few of her books having appeared in Western languages.

Reviews

[lou]

文學性的漫畫。

[Maria]

台版叫巴士站四点见，简中叫一根棒，手机在线看的电子版有点费眼睛，简中版40多块呢，有点贵不想买，第一篇故事讲的一对夫妻很平实普通，小温馨没有特别打动人吧，应该不会买这本书，能下载电子版电脑上看看还行

[21stpear · Rating 5 out of 5]

omg……我本來以為柘植義春夠淡了（態度上，結果文子老師更勝一籌…..極具想像力的小故事描述瑣碎的生活，甚至忍不住停下來看每一個網格點。美麗小鎮看得熱淚盈眶，完全我做夢會想到的戀愛生活，「在這個小鎮裡，靜靜地想著」。每一篇每一篇都要再看幾次。