Blog Sub-Titles added for Hobbies and Interests.

While my website doubles as a personal blog, the topics do tend to stray. I have a myriad of hobbies and interests as well as a host of projects that I work on. Plus, I like to talk about life and such.

I have decided to go back through my blog posts and those blogs that focused on a certain subject, I have decided to categorize them for browsing ease.

The topics thus far that I am singling out:

• THRILL SEEKER COMICS™ — my creator-owned independent comic book series and universe published by Bandito Entertainment™ featuring Yellow Jacket: Man of Mystery™, Ms. Tittenhurst: Finder of Lost Things™, and The Emerald Mantis™.
• SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ — my independent comic strips featuring the Public Domain Popeye and friends
• COMICS — general topic related to all things that are comic book and comic strips related that might cover Green Arrow, Batman, Superman, Popeye, and everything else. It also may include topics of my comic book career.
• PHILATELY — topics and photography of those things related to collecting postage stamps. 
• VINYL RECORD COLLECTING — topics, reviews, and articles related to music and vinyl record collecting.
• FILMS — topics, reviews, and articles related to cinema and what movies that I am watching or recommending.
• ACTION FIGURES — topics, reviews, photographs, and articles related to action figures that may include Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Mego, Popeye, and more.

All other general topics or things about life will just be posted with whatever title seems appropriate to me, but the topics that fit under one of those bulleted topics above will have the sub-title added to help readers browse the subjects that they might want to read about.

I hope this helps organize the posts that are on these wide range of topics.

More Lost Blogs Found... Three Blogs from 2002 when I started on Blogger.

A follow up from my last post about restoring blog entries from 2008. This time, I updated my blog late last night after finding some "lost" blog entries from 2002 over on the Internet Archive's WAYBACK website. This was my first foray into blogging here on Blogger back in the day. 

There are only three blog posts. I wasn't good about regularly posting and only did so on occasions. One of the blogs is an interview that is a little out of date with my feelings now, but it is there for posterity as a record.

The three lost blogs have been restored here with links below.

▼  2002 (3)

• ▼  September (3)
• Scott McCullar's Comic Book Ideology (2002 Interview)
• "Friendships" (I get by with a little help from my...
• "My Granddaddy" (The Anniversary of His Death

Revisiting the Year 2008 and Restoring Deleted Blog Entries from that year

Thanks to the WAYBACK MACHINE (Internet Archive), I spent some time this morning revisiting archived Blog posts that I made way back during the year 2008.

Back then, I was a 37-year old father and still struggling in my relationship of my first marriage. Our children were young. My daughter Rachel was 12 and my son Mitch was 8. My "day job" consisted of working as a graphic designer and adjunct art instructor at Springfield College - Benedictine University. A few years earlier, I had been selected to be a church elder at our Missouri Synod Lutheran Church and I wasn't even in there for the meeting and vote. I was a brown belt in Yoshukai Karate studying and practicing at dojos in both Springfield and Lincoln, Illinois getting ready for my black belt test. I was also playing bass guitar with two fellow black belts in a bar band called THE RAMBLIN' ELK.

That summer, we took a family vacation to California to go to Disneyland. I also revisited my old home in Fresno, California. I attended a comic book convention that year and also saw The Police reunited in concert. Just two years earlier, Shooting Star Comics, LLC had disbanded and our independent comic book company had broken up. My parents came up for a visit in Illinois and we made one trip to see them in Memphis. I was still trying to break into comics, but karate and playing in a bar band was taking priority in my life. It was during this year that I faced the realization that I was NOT going to work full-time in comics (and get that coveted gig writing GREEN ARROW). It was a dream that I had to face that was NOT going to happen for me.

2008 was good, bad, and ugly for me... but for what I remember, I pushed myself hard in trying to be a better father, husband, Christian, musician, karate student, and artist. I was trying so hard to please everybody and not make anyone mad or not like me.

I found some old blog posts on the Internet Archive that I had previously deleted after my separation and divorce. It was an emotionally tough time for me, but after a decade, I have undergone some emotional healing. Upon finding these old blog posts, I decided to restore them to this blog here in the year 2025 even if there is mention of my ex-wife Roxie (She is a wonderful mother to our children and I only wish the best for her in life). 

So much has changed in my life since then (and I have also remarried a second time to a wonderful woman from Texas named Jennifer), but I want to preserve this as a record of my life. In the future, I intend to go back to other years of my life and see if I can restore old blog entries and things that I wrote. Some may be painful due to the separation and divorce in 2012-2013 with my ex-wife Roxie and those VERY difficult years that followed afterwards, but I am going to see what I can preserve and restore.

I didn't blog too often, but I did blog over the years. 2008 had some interesting posts (including a couple of local newspaper interviews with me). I have restored the important blogs from that year. Not everything was restored as a few didn't need to be, but if you look, you will now find them in the archive of this blog.

• ▼  2008 (6)
  • ▼  July (1)
    • My Recap of Wizard World Chicago 2008
  • ▼  June (1)
    • Back from California
  • ▼  May (4)
    • Interview with me in the SJ-R (from May 22, 2008)
    • Battling Asthma (Inhaler Free?)
    • Bring On the Night – I saw The Police in Concert O...
    • An article in today's SJ-R Newspaper where I was i...

In the future, I intend to go back and restore older deleted blog entries that I can dig up from previous years that I thought were deleted forever.

 

Subscribe to me on Substack for Webcomic Updates, Articles, and other Missives

The shadows make me look like I’m behind bars this morning in my cubicle at work here at the day job. How apropos.

Anyway... I just started a Substack page last night. Looking to post my webcomic strips and other articles and missives in the near future in order to allow for people to subscribe and receive them via app or email when I update. 

Going to give this a test spin and see if I can build an audience. Want to get in on the ground floor?

 Ryan Scott McCullar | Substack

Re-Welcome to my Official Website and Blog

So, I dusted off my website over the past month or so. Mainly due to the release of my first issue of THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY #1 and the traffic that I am getting. Perhaps it is the end of lockdown and hopefully putting that behind us after these last three years or so. I'm feeling more social and putting myself back out there. I've decided that I would like to write some more -- including writing more blog entries -- with things on my mind. Or perhaps some reviews on films, books, and record releases. Or just life observations in general. Perhaps sharing some of my personal artwork -- both comic book related and personal artwork that is more fine arts. Anyway, I just wanted to "re-welcome" you if you haven't stopped by in a while. Give me a shout out if you wish so that I know that I'm not just talking to myself.

Revamping the Website -- The Soft Relaunch is Now

So, over the past few days, I've been restructuring and retooling my websites and online presence. It is nice returning and updating things.

For the past four years, I really haven't blogged at all here on Blogger. The last blog post was from 2015 that pointed to a link with an interview with yours truly that I conducted with my pal, Sean Taylor.  You can still read it.

As for my various websites (i.e., Thrill Seeker Comics, Bandito Entertainment, Scott McCullar, etc.), they sat dormant over the past 18 months or so.  I've been absent from updating my websites since releasing the THRILL SEEKER COMICS ARCHIVE VOLUME ONE that I was promoting on Kickstarter with a crowdfunding project that was successful. Life took some unexpected turns for me and I had my long lost weekend over the last few years, to borrow a coined term from Beatle John Lennon. I've been dealing with some personal matters in my life and keeping busy with other projects.

More on that later perhaps in another post about my personal goings on.

Things are groovy now in my life and I'm finding myself returning to some more of my creative passions and hobbies. I'll be sharing more in the future...

As for my website, I'm now moving scottmccullar.com and my other domain names to point here at Blogger where this blog is being retooled to be my singular website. For me, it makes sense economically as well as timewise and the ease at updating. I hope to update on various things, including THRILL SEEKER COMICS related pieces as I return to publishing just a bit. I will also post on my blog about other matters and interests. I will label updates for easy access -- especially if you just want to view certain topics and wade through the other pieces.

Consider this week a test run as I move domains over, etc., and get this spot ready to relaunch.

Thanks,
Scott