日高　トモキチ（ひだか　ともきち）Tomokichi Hidaka

作家・漫画家・イラストレーター。早稲田大学在学中に漫画研究会に所属し、卒業後『パラダイス・ロスト』（1994）にて漫画家デビュー。同時期にSF同人誌PARADOXに小説『アンビストマの大迷宮』を寄稿する。
以後は主に漫画家として活動し『トーキョー博物誌』『原色ひまつぶし図鑑』『ダーウィンの覗き穴』（原作：メノ・スヒルトハウゼン）など、カルチャーとユーモアに軸足を置いた作品群を発表。
2017年からはcoco・玉川数との共著で奇譚小説集『里山奇談』シリーズを刊行、作家としての活動を本格的に再開する。単著小説集『レオノーラの卵』（2021）では、奇想と伝奇・ファンタジーの混在する独自の世界を展開している。
2012年より京都精華大学にて非常勤、2021年からは開志専門職大学にて専任講師職を拝命。

Tomokichi Hidaka is a novelist, manga artist, and illustrator. While he was studying at Waseda University, he was an active member of the university manga research club, and he made his debut as a manga artist soon after his graduation in 1994 with Paradaisu rosuto (Paradise Lost). Around that time, he also contributed to the SF fanzine PARADOX with “Anbisutoma no daimeikyū (The Great Labyrinth of Ambystoma).” He has been working mainly as a manga artist, with works centered on culture and humor, such as Tōkyō hakubutsushi (Tokyo Natural History), Genshoku himatsubushi zukan (An Illustrated Book on Killing Time with Primary Colors), and Dāwin no nozokiana (Darwin’s Peephole), which is based on Menno Schilthuizen’s book. In 2017, he published the Satoyama kidan (Tales from Satoyama) series, a collection of strange stories co-authored with coco and Kazus Tamagawa, resuming his activities as an author. In his 2021 single-authored novel collection Reonora no tamago (Leonora’s Egg), he develops a unique world where he mixes bizarre, legendary, and the fantastical elements. He has been working as a part-time lecturer at Kyoto Seika University since 2012 and as a full-time lecturer at Kaishi Professional University since 2021.