Raymond Mullikin is a cartoonist and credentialed educator. He teaches art classes (including cartooning and claymation) to children. He also creates his own children's books, comics, computer games and animated films. His first published work was at age 12, in which designed ads (and a logo) for local businesses in his hometown. He has self-published cartoons in books, magazines, newspapers, and e-cards in the US and Canada. One of his earliest notables being "The Tumbleweed Trail" which was published in Bluemoon Comics magazine and "The World of Weralt" a fantasy graphic novel he wrote when