Gosho Aoyama

BIOGRAFIA & NOTAS

Gosho Aoyama (Japanese: 青山 剛昌, Hepburn: Aoyama Gōshō, born June 21, 1963) is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series Detective Conan (1994–present), known as Case Closed in some English-speaking countries. As of 2017, his various manga series had a combined 200 million copies in print worldwide. Aoyama made his debut as a manga artist with *Chotto Mattete*, which was published in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in winter of 1987. Shortly after that, he began *Magic Kaito* in the same magazine. *Magic Kaito* protagonist Kaito Kuroba later appeared in Case Closed. Between 1988 and 1993, Aoyama created the series *Yaiba*, which ran for 24 volumes. Later, he would release other manga series in single volumes, such as Third Baseman No.4 and Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories. Aoyama began serializing *Detective Conan* in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on January 19, 1994. When the series was first released in English, it was given the title Case Closed.