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If you are on Facebook and would like to join and follow the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES webcomics featuring the public domain-based POPEYE that I am writing and illustrating, please join other like minded readers and fans over at https://www.facebook.com/groups/seashantyfunnies

 

 

Migrating and moving SEA SHANTY FUNNIES and THRILL SEEKER COMICS websites here under www.scottmccullar.com

 

I have shut down the stand alone version of the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES website that was previously hosted on Blogger at https://seashantyfunnies.blogspot.com/. Instead, I have migrated the site over here to www.scottmccullar.com where it has it's own subsection when you would follow that link or if you typed in www.seashantyfunnies.com that now redirects here.

 Look at the top of my website and you will seek a clear big link to SEA SHANTY FUNNIES. Also, I have a visual slider that allows you to swipe and read all past and present web comic strips in sequential or reverse mode if you are trying to catch up with the series.

It is just easier for me to have one dedicated site now to house all of my projects.

 

Likewise, I am doing the same thing with the THRILL SEEKER COMICS website . It was costing me over $300 a year to host it's own site and all of the special functionality. The 'ROI' was not justifying the expense. So, I migrated it over here. I am currently updating and refreshing both 'sub-websites'.

Again, sorry for the mess as I redesign both sites here.

 

 

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ Comic Strip #28 - Happy Birthday, Olive Oyl!

 

It was 106 years ago today that it all began in 1919 when E.C. Segar debuted his comic strip THIMBLE THEATRE featuring Olive Oyl and her boyfriend Ham Gravy, her parents Cole and Nana Oyl, and conniving brother Castor Oyl. It wouldn't be for another ten years until Popeye entered the picture. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OLIVE OYL! 

 

Today's comic strip couldn't have been done without a conversation that I had with my wife Jennifer McCullar. Thank you sweetheart. And thank you to own my own mother Linda McCullar who has told me countless times how she feels VERY young in her own heart and not her age. Thanks, Mama. 

 

Also, though embellished on my own, I want to acknowledge that some of Olive's expressions in the drawings from today's comic strip were inspired and taken from looking at E.C. Segar's drawings and the Popeye cartoon model sheet done out of respect and homage. Oh yeah, Olive blowing heart-shaped kisses inspired courtesy of the Nintendo arcade game that I spent many quarters on back in the day.

Sorry About the Mess - Merging THRILL SEEKER COMICS and SEA SHANTY FUNNIES websites here under SCOTTMCCULLAR.COM

As of the evening of December 18th, I am in the process of moving and merging my various websites and blogs for www.seashantyfunnies.com and www.thrillseekercomics.com both over to here to fit under one umbrella at www.scottmccullar.com . This merger and site redesign will probably be going on over the next few days as I update the look and functions of the website(s) and get a new hierarchy built over here.

 

Sorry about the mess. 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™: My childhood doodle of Popeye from 1982

 

 

So, my childhood pal Ron Rice texted me this scanned artwork that he still has in his possession. Apparently this is a Popeye drawing that I did for him way back in the 6th Grade around 1982-83 when we were both 12 years old. I thought I would share. Me and the Sailor Man go way back further than even this… to even before kindergarten for me.

THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: Update on THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY #2

 

THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY #2 is completed with some last minute added pages to the issue that I decided to slip in a new short story. We had to restructure this book from what we had originally intended. The files have been uploaded to the printer for me to get a handful copies to be printed for a proof copy sample for us to review. 

 

The page count has increased since the last issue. I was originally going to make this a 52-page Giant (instead of 36 pages like issue one), but this second issue now clocks in at 40 pages (calling it a 'mid-size' Giant). Due to the price of rising printing, page count, and shipping costs, I need to raise the cover price just a bit to cover that costs to even get it published. I'm supposed to get my proof before New Year's Eve. I hope to be able to green light this for release in January. I don't think I'm going to do a Kickstater this go around. Instead, I will get some copies printed that I will sign, distribute, and mail directly to you myself. I'll then get this to be a "Print-on-Demand" book through IndyPlanet, but it could take months (if last time was a measure to go by) before they list it. I will also look at some digital offering options, too. More info in the coming weeks! Thanks!

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™: Collecting and reading original newspaper strips this past year from the Doc Winner and Bela Zeboly Years

 

Just over a year ago, I began collecting actual newspaper Sunday comic and daily strips of POPEYE that were published from the years 1938 to 1946 after the premature death of Popeye's original creator E.C. Segar in 1938. Since then, I'm now well into the 1950's material.

 

Before that, I had never even seen or read the POPEYE comic strips with the Tom Sims (writer), Doc Winner (artist), Bill "Bela" Zeboly (artist), and Ralph Stein (writer) circa that twenty-year period between 1938-1958. Some of these comic strips are reprinted through the Official Popeye Fanclub in their newsletter. There is also an "underground" provider of "Lost Popeye" era comics that I've found some of the strips that I am missing that were pulled from online archived newspapers. 

 

 

 

I enjoy reading and collecting these as a fan, but it also has helped in my own research to work on these SEA SHANTY FUNNIES... even with this being my "own take" in my own alternate little Popeye public domain universe (that by the way, I am nicknaming my own little Sea Shanty Funniesverse "Earth-24C" to go along with the Thrill Seeker Comics universe that is "Earth-24" in the Indieversity Project Universe. Not that you needed to know that). I digress.

 

It has been pretty exciting to see and read. All great stuff. I've purchased some portfolios and I've been placing and curating them carefully in those. I thought I would (re)share these pics as I thought some of you might be interested in seeing them.

Me and the "Real" Lulu...

A recent photo of me and our puppy Lulu taken just over a week ago (...yes, this is the "real" Lulu who is the inspiration of "Lulu: The Hellhound" from recent THRILL SEEKER COMICS stories featuring the dame detective MS. TITTENHURST: FINDER OF LOST THINGS.)

Where Did the Time Go? (...and a quip about social media disengagement)

Today is November 18th. It also happens to be my father's 79th birthday.... so I'll be giving him a video chat later today to wish him well.

It has been just over a half year since I've updated my blog here on my personal website. My apologies, but I still wonder if anyone goes out to websites and reads blog posts in this day and age? Or specifically, do I still have friends, family, or anyone else out there that visits here?

Honestly, I feel like I'm talking to myself just a bit as I do not ever get responses or feedback for what I write or post here on my website(s). I've pulled back on social media this year and took a break for a few months from Facebook after the U.S. Presidential election and Trump's inauguration. 

I've watched some recent videos on YouTube about social media disengagement. It isn't like the old days several decades ago when the Internet was brand new and exciting. Lots of burn out. With the political divide, lots of online distancing, too. I think in my Facebook feed (once I returned), I see posts and have exchanges with only about two dozen of the "usual" people. Now, my Facebook feed is 95% ads or just click bait junk to keep me scrolling. I left Twitter over a year ago due to it becoming Elon Musk's "X" and a cesspool. I have no regrets there of leaving. Honestly, I don't think I would miss Facebook if it ever imploded or if I do decide to leave it.

I'm rambling now.

For now, I am going to gather my thoughts. I will give a life update soon on here. I also will have some new material to release with THRILL SEEKER COMICS and my public-domain Popeye series called SEA SHANTY FUNNIES.

Until then... be well.

Scott