Ryan Scott McCullar is a Professional Graphic Designer, Writer, and Visual Artist currently working for the Illinois State Board of Education as a Principal Consultant (Graphic Designer) in the Software Solutions Department. Outside of his day job, Scott is also the creator-owner of THRILL SEEKER COMICS™ ANTHOLOGY Pulp Action & Adventure Series featuring The Yellow Jacket: Man of Mystery™ that he writes and illustrates under his independent publishing banner named Bandito Entertainment™. Visit www.thrillseekercomics.com for more information.
Scott also just began writing and illustrating the comic strip series SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ in 2025 that features the public-domain character POPEYE. Visit www.seashantyfunnies.com for more information.
For nearly two decades, he worked in Higher Education as an Adjunct Faculty Professor in the Fine Arts and Communication Arts curriculum programs and served as a Marketing Communications Manager and Creative Designer at Benedictine University at Springfield (formerly Springfield College in Illinois).
McCullar
earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Drawing and Printmaking
from Illinois State University in 1993 and also earned his Master of Science (M.S.) in
Management and Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University in
2012 with a concentration in Organization Development as it relates to Marketing, Communications, and Visual Branding.
His interests are multi-faceted
that include playing bass guitar, drawing, reading, watching films,
collecting comic books and vintage action figures (i.e. especially the original G.I. Joe, Star Wars, and Mego action figures), philately (stamp collecting), and collecting and listening to vinyl records.
Scott is a diehard fan of The Beatles, The Police (and Sting), Eric Clapton, B.B. King, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Louis Jordan, and other classic rock and blues music. He also loves books and movies associated with some of his favorite fictional properties that include Star Wars, Star Trek, DC Comics, Marvel, and Ian Fleming's James Bond.
McCullar is a black belt karate practitioner primarily studying Yoshukai
hard style karate and assists in teaching self-defense classes. He briefly studied Shotokan abroad in Chichibu, Japan in 2014.
Previously in his youth, he was a student of Shudo-Kan and Shito-Ryu
styles of karate. He also studies other Japanese and/or Okinawan
martial art forms that include Iaido, Kobudo, and Jiu-jitsu.Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he has previously lived in California, Tennessee, Georgia, and briefly stayed for several months in Japan in 2014 after going through a difficult divorce with his first wife of twenty years with whom he raised two wonderful children together with her – but for the most part – he has lived in the prairie lands of Central Illinois in his formative school days (1979-1993) and returned in 1997 to the area where he currently lives in the capitol of Springfield.
