Tomoko Taniguchi
is a Japanese ''shōjo'' manga artist who was born in Hokkaidō, then spent a year in college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.Taniguchi's manga have been published by MB (My Birthday) in Japanese and by CPM Manga in English. She has published 9 volumes of manga total. Her first published manga was ''Anpan Balance'', which won silver at the 4th Omacomi Manga School Contest. ''Anpan Balance'' was later released in the manga ''Let's Stay Together Forever''; the title story of that book was her second published story.
Taniguchi and Matt Forbeck have helped write some of the books in the '''''Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga Illustrated''''' series, especially the Shoujo edition which includes her illustrations.
Taniguchi recently designed her first fabric print for American clothing designer Samantha Rei.
* The first ''shōjo'' manga artist for Marvel Comic. ( ''Marvel AI #1'' ) * As her biggest dream, drawing Star Wars as Shoujo manga style, she became one of the Sketch Card artists for ''Topps Star Wars trading cards''. Provided by Wikipedia
