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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

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ Comic Strip #2 - Happy Popeye Day on his 96th B-day!

Quick Update

I'm in the process of moving my art studio office into another part of the house - so my Intuous Cintiq is not set up at the moment. We're painting the new room this weekend that I'm about to move into as my den. 

However, I finished writing another comic script earlier today!

And I have a few more stories in mind.

Look for a new SEA SHANTY FUNNIES comic strip this Friday to celebrate Popeye Day.

I hope to return to production for the two THRILL SEEKER COMICS publications next month to finish up. Sorry for the delay, but family life got in the way a bit.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ Comic Strip #1 - Welcome Aboard, Swabbies!

Happy New Year!

 

Popeye enters the public domain today here in the U.S.

 

Yours truly decided that I would like to do my own take on this character that I've loved since childhood. I am writing and illustrating a comic strip called "SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™". There won't be any Rated-R slasher style stories here. No twisted takes to titillate or cause any controversy. I just want to do my own all-ages respectful ode to those classic stories that many of us have loved. Hope you'll enjoy.

 

“SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™” is in no way associated with King Features Syndicate, Inc., nor are any claims made against their trademarks. Popeye was created by E.C. Segar.

 

I have also launched a webpage today at https://seashantyfunnies.blogspot.com/ where I will post new one-page short stories sporadically in the future. .

 

 

THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: Thank You!

Today is the last comic strip as this storyline concludes.

My wife Jennifer and I would like to thank those of you who followed this comic strip for the last six months and supported us. With this final episode for "Case of the Missing Guitar", we would like to bid thee farewell for now as we're going to suspend publishing the online comic strips for the foreseeable future as we get back to focusing on working on our print publications and other special projects.

Don't worry though... MS. TITTENHURST: FINDER OF LOST THINGS Will Return!!!

Look for her next in THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY #2 in a new story later this year as well as when we collect this online comic strip into a printed souvenir comic book that will include bonus post-credit scenes in THRILL SEEKER COMICS PRESENTS #1.

This free online comic strip was an experiment to showcase just one of our features with a new character that we put together. It was an interesting experience working on a deadline comic strip in our spare time. We hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for the support this past year. We will see you with more later this year. Stay tuned.

www.thrillseekercomics.com

Thanks,

Scott

COMICS: POPEYE Comic Strips

 

This year, I just recently began collecting actual newspaper Sunday comic and daily strips of POPEYE from the years 1938 to 1946 after the premature death of Popeye's creator E.C. Segar in 1938.

 

My interest to discover POPEYE stories during those "lost years" after Segar's death and before Bud Sagendorf took over in the late 1950's led me to look online for actual comic strips because King Features (at least to my knowledge) has never reprinted the entire 1930's through 1950's comic strips. I guess here and there they might have been reprinted in an old comic or two.

 

I had never even seen or read the POPEYE comic strips with the Tom Sims (writer), Doc Winner (artist), Bill "Bela" Zeboly (artist), and Ralphi Stein (writer) circa that twenty-year period between 1938-1958 that led me recently to acquiring some strips (thanks to eBay) from the World War Two era. 

 

It has been pretty exciting to see and read. I've purchased some portfolios and I've been placing and curating them carefully in those this past week.

 

I live in Springfield, Illinois. I purchased several years worth of POPEYE strips from someone in Chicago. To my amazement, the POPEYE comic strips I bought from this one dealer happened to be from the Illinois State Journal from the 1941-1945 which is actually the "local" newspaper (which merged with another local paper years ago to become The Illinois State Journal-Register. ) To my surprise, as I turned over the comic strips, I was reading local history. That was a nice bonus.

 

My friends in Springfield will like this... as I'm seeing pieces of history in the paper from those times about the Esquire Movie Theater, the Myers Building, the Carrie Post King Daughter's Home, Staab Funeral, and so much more. I'm also seeing some familiar last names of people in the obituaries and I have to wonder if they might be grandparents or great-grandparents of some of my friends.

 

One weird thing happened... I was watching a documentary on Golden Age actress Joan Blondell on YouTube... and at the same exact moment as I was watching the video, I was collating these comic strips into my portfolio and flipping them over to read the Springfield, Illinois parts... well, an advertisement for Joan's new movie CRY HAVOC was in the newspaper just as I was watching the video that brought up CRY HAVOC. Weird.

 

I've never seen the film, so it is now on my list because I believe synchronicity is calling me to go see it.