SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ Comic Strip #4 - Two for Tuesday!

 

Public domain Green-Suited Wimpy appears as a derivative courtesy of the public domain cartoon "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor" (1936)

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ Comic Strip #3 - 'Cause I'm the Taxman!

 

Enjoy my respectful nod 'n wink tribute to a classic at www.seashantyfunnies.com for a friendly all-ages public domain-based comic strip.

THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: Update - Rescheduled Releases for 2025

While I have decided to dabble with a public-domain Popeye comic strip this year with the brand new SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™, I have not forgotten our fellow thrillseekers out there...

This year, we have two THRILL SEEKER COMICS™ issues in the making from BANDITO ENTERTAINMENT™ for upcoming release that we had to reschedule from last year's initial plans. 

This summer, watch for the 24-page THRILL SEEKER COMICS™ PRESENTS #1 featuring MS. TITTENHURST™: FINDER OF LOST THINGS in "Case of the Missing Guitar". This issue reprints the entire online web comic strip collected together from 2024 and includes a brand-new four-page epilogue to the story.

This story is co-written with my wife Jennifer.

 

 

This fall, keep your eyes peeled for the EXPANDED 52-page THRILL SEEKER COMICS™ ANTHOLOGY #2 with various stories (Four All-New Tales and Two Remastered Classic Reprints) featuring YELLOW JACKET: MAN OF MYSTERY™, MS. TITTENHURST™: FINDER OF LOST THINGS, THE MIGHTIEST EMERALD MANTIS™, THE BOLD BOWMAN™, and RED DEVIL-BAT™ and his sidekick KID DEVIL-MAYCARE™. This second issue promises to pack a wallop!

 

We will keep you updated when the issues will be available for sale.

COMICS: Recommendation to Join the Official Popeye Fanclub

As a fellow fan of Popeye, please allow me to give a recommendation for you to join the Official Popeye Fanclub that issues a nifty membership package including a few newsletters each year.

I love the newsletters with the articles that they publish and some of the reprints of the older Bela Zeboly strips you can read.

To join, go to http://www.popeyethesailor.com/club/main.htm for more information. If the link to pay online isn't working, you can mail a check (for $10 in the U.S.) to the Official Popeye Fanclub -  1001 State St. - Chester, IL 62233, or call Debbie at 618-826-4567 with a credit card.

It is about time for me to renew my own annual membership!

 

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.

COMICS: Public Domain Popeye and his Spinach Debate

Yes, the Public Domain Popeye can eat his Spinach due to a loophole in which a 1931 copyright lapsed.

 

 

 

Full Article Here: 

 https://mashable.com/article/public-domain-day-2025?fbclid=IwY2xjawHsQb1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHU6DfBZmJq_A_YzHx5t1xL_kogqM1QmowluqupFNv3TWi-nP31wE-p-ZzA_aem_6ZgLIrwFMs0dqSmtn8DYfQ

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. .

 

 

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.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™: Happy Valentine's Day!

 

Salty and Sweet. Happy Valentine's Day to all of you out there! And to my own sweetie, Jennifer. Here is a little drawing by me.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™: Popeye 95th Birthday

 Happy birthday to an old friend (who enters the public domain next year)!