Sketchbook (manga)

Sketchbook
The cover of the manga's first volume
スケッチブック (Suketchibukku)
Genre	Comedy, Slice of life
Manga
Written by	Totan Kobako
Published by	Mag Garden
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Comic Blade Monthly Comic Garden
Original run	April 2002 – present
Volumes	10 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Sketchbook ~full color's~
Directed by	Yoshimasa Hiraike
Written by	Mari Okada
Studio	Hal Film Maker
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 2, 2007 – December 25, 2007
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)

Sketchbook (スケッチブック, Suketchibukku^?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Totan Kobako. First serialized in the April 2002 issue of Comic Blade, the individual chapters are collected and published by Mag Garden. Chapters have also appeared in Comic Blade Masamune. An anime adaptation, under the title Sketchbook ~full color's~, aired in Japan between October 2 and December 25, 2007. The story revolves around a group of high school students, mostly female, in the art club at their high school. The main character is a young, shy and quiet girl named Sora Kajiwara who goes through life at her own pace.

Sketchbook begins with Sora Kajiwara joining the art club of her unnamed Fukuoka high school, and goes on to chronicle her subsequent experiences and those of her fellow club members.

Written and illustrated by Totan Kobako, Sketchbook is a four-panel comic strip manga series first serialized in Mag Garden's Comic Blade magazine starting with the April 2002 issue. The manga has made additional appearances in another manga magazine published by Mag Garden named Comic Blade Masamune. An additional volume, Sketchbook Shucchōban, was published on January 10, 2006 as a collection of bonus material which initially appeared in Comic Blade Masamune. When Comic Blade ceased publication with the September 2014 issue,Sketchbook continued serialized in the online version of Comic Blade, in addition to a concurrent serialization in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Garden magazine with the October 2014 issue. The manga is published in Taiwan in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing.