Kazuhide Ichikawa is a veteran manga cartoonist based in Tokyo. Since his debut in the late 1980s, his work has been published in G-Men and Badi. He is also the author of several graphic novels and works in frequent collaborations with artists and writers such as Satoru Sugajima, with whom he has produced the extremely popular series „Daddies Garden,“ included in this first English compilation. Ichikawa is a graphic designer by trade and has spent many years in Australia and the US, and writes for Japanese and Anglophone audiences.