Hisaichi Ishii (born 1951) is a Japanese manga artist from Tamano, Okayama Prefecture. He made his debut in 1972, while studying at Kansai University, with “Oh! Baito-kun.” Using economical drawings and sharply timed dialogue, his four-panel manga satirizes subjects ranging from family life to baseball, politics, economics, and philosophy. He has received the Bungeishunju Manga Award, the Short Work Prize at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and the Kikuchi Kan Prize. His representative work, “Nono-chan,” began its long-running newspaper serialization in 1991 under the title “Tonari no Yamada-kun.” Set in a port town resembling southern Okayama, it follows third-grader Nono and the everyday mishaps of the Yamada family and became the basis for Studio Ghibli’s film “My Neighbors the Yamadas” and a television anime series.