Shinbo Nomura

; 24 September 1955 in Minamikayabe, now part of Hakodate, Hokkaido}} is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of the yonkoma manga , which was adapted as a 58-episode anime television series and for which he received the 1988 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. He also later created a manga adaption of ''Ratchet & Clank''.

He began his career as an assistant to Kenshi Hirokane. Provided by Wikipedia