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Ray Mullikin

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USA

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http://www.raytoonscartoons.com

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http://www.raytoonscartoons.com/qup_ep03_001.html

Biography

Ray Mullikin was born in San Luis Obispo and moved to Cambria with his family when he was four. His father was a maintenance supervisor at Hearst Castle and his mother worked an Elementary School. He is the eldest of four children, two boys and two girls. Mullikin has been interested in drawing from an early age. Here is what he said was the reason he got into cartooning: "Most of my life I wanted to be a cartoonist, which basically has roots during the time I was in Kindergarten. It was close to Halloween and our class was working on an art project for Halloween. I remember spending a lot of my time on my art project, trying to make it exceed what I considered to be the art teacher’s expectations. I don’t know if it actually did or not, but the teacher gave a compliment on my artwork. This boosted my pride and I considered drawing a talent that I should be more focused on. This shows how a few simple words made by a teacher or parent can have such a deep impact on a child’s life. It certainly did for me. I’ve been drawing ever since." For many years of his youth Mullikin spent submitting artwork to businesses in Cambria, resulting with many of his drawings in the Cambrian in the advertising sections. One of his drawings in Middle School was even used by the Cambria Youth Center as their logo. In high school he made short animated films for many of his classes trying to squeeze extra credit out of his teachers. A couple of his films have been shown in Independent Film Theaters. After highschool he has published cartoons in magazines, Newspapers, and e-cards in the US and Canada. The most noteable being “The Tumbleweed Trail” which lasted for several issues of Bluemoon Comics magazine. In 2005 he published a couple comic books called Quackup starring his most known comic character Jonathin Quackup. In 2006 he published a comic-styled children’s book called “2 Many Parakeets”, a goofy comic-book-styled children's story, starring two crazy parakeets featuring bright and colorful cartoon-style drawings set against soft-focus, almost impressionistic backgrounds. In May 2007, Ray released the first issue of his magazine series called "Raytoons Cartoon Revue", taking in comic book writers and artists, whose art and writings would be rejected by larger comic book companies. The magazine would also be a place for creators to advertise their work in any way that they choose.

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