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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.