Wisut Ponnimit (Thai: วิศุทธิ์ พรนิมิตร; August 15, 1976, Bangkok), sometimes known by the nickname Tum or Tam (Thai: ตั้ม), is a Thai cartoonist, animator, illustrator and musician. He is best known for creating the cartoon character Mamuang who has attained significant popularity in Thailand and Japan as well as hesheit, an ongoing series of short comic stories. Started in 1998, hesheit is one of the very first alternative Thai comics and one of the only Thai comic series partly translated into English and Japanese. During a two-year study trip in Japan from 2003 to 2005, Wisut Ponnimit started working as a manga artist for Japanese publishing companies such as Shinchosha and Shogakukan. His manga series Blanco (Japanese: ブランコ) was published in the Japanese magazine Ikki Comics (Shogakuk