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Noboru Baba (馬場のぼる) was a Japanese manga artist and writer. He is best known for the picture book series 11 Piki no Neko.

Life and career
Baba was born in Sannohe in Aomori Prefecture. He became friends with children's writer Shigeru Shiraki, who was from the same town as him, and he motivated Baba to move to Tokyo. In Tokyo, he started his career as a manga artist. As such, he published popular children's manga like Posto-kun and Būtan. Eventually, he started drawing manga also for newspapers and weekly magazines.

His picture book series 11 Piki no Neko became a big hit. The six volumes of the series sold more than 3 million copies.

Sources:


 * ja.wiki https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%A0%B4%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BC%E3%82%8B
 * https://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=6122
 * http://caluchanche.blogspot.com/2009/08/baba-noboru.html?m=0
 * https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%A6%AC%E5%A0%B4%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BC%E3%82%8B-604107

Legacy
Keiji Nakazawa read his work

Osamu Tezuka included him as a character in some of his works such as ...

Awards

The Aomori Museum of Art dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 2009.
 * Shogakukan Manga Award 1955 for Būtan