Gosho Aoyama

Gosho Aoyama (青山 剛昌 ,Aoyama Gōshō), born Yoshimasa Aoyama (青山 剛昌 ,Aoyama Yoshimasa) on June 21, 1963 in Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, Japan (formerly Daiei, Tottori Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Detective Conan (known in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as Case Closed). He has also designed the human characters for the children's anime series, Hamtaro.