Ron Wheeler has been drawing cartoons and humor illustrations professionally since 1980. His calling is to create and use cartoons to be a communication vehicle for spreading God’s truths. The Lord has blessed Ron with the opportunity to serve Him in this capacity through evangelical ministries and publishing companies all over the globe.

Ron has had the privilege of creating a line of 85 different gospel-oriented cartoon tracts that have sold 75 million copies. He has also had several books and comic strips published. Most notable is a weekly comic strip called The Adventures of Jeremiah that was published in a Sunday School take-home magazine for 20 years. Plus, Ron’s humorous illustrations can be found in lots of Sunday School curriculum, VBS materials, magazine articles, and book covers as well. He also enjoys illustrating books for various publishers and authors as well as writing and illustrating several of his own children’s books.

In the early 1990s Ron began CartoonWorks as a vehicle for making his previously created work available to help churches, Christian schools, and Christian families fulfill the great commission. He began by selling his Cartoon Clip Art for Youth Leaders (books 1 and 2, published by Baker Book House) to Christian youth leaders through card decks. These are packages of promotional postcards sent by mail to church high school directors.

Over the years this effort evolved into a downloadable products website called CartoonWorks.com. As Ron’s work for Christian ministries and publishing companies continued, the volume of material at CartoonWorks.com began to grow. Many of his illustrations have made their way into CartoonWorks’ massive 35,000 Image Vault that pastors, youth leaders, children’s directors, Christian schools, home schoolers, etc. can use to enhance their print and social media messages. Whether it is clipart, tracts, coloring pages, comic strips, cartoon books, puzzles and games, etc., it is now the only place where much of Ron’s unique work can be found.

It has become a cornucopia of valuable cartoon resources for the evangelical ministry community.

In addition, Ron has been a frequent guest speaker on cartoon evangelism across the globe including Youth With A Mission’s University of Nations in Kona, Hawaii. He also spent 12 years hosting a Cartoon Camp in his home/studio to help others learn how they can make Christ the center of any creative pursuit. His Learn to Draw teaching videos were derived from this experience.

Currently, Ron is serving part-time on staff with The Navigators, a worldwide discipleship ministry organization. The Navigators’ motto is “to know Christ, make him known, and help others do the same.”

Ron and his wife, Cindy, have been married since 1984 and have three adult children who were home schooled from the beginning. All three are now happily married, walking with the Lord, gainfully employed, and are producing lots of wonderful grandchildren.

Ron and Cindy both grew up in Nebraska where they both earned their Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Nebraska. They met and married at a church in Kansas City, Missouri, where they still attend. They have lived in the same neighborhood near their church for several decades now. They are a blessed picture of stability in a dynamic, changing world.