I just wanted to give an update.
First, I’m having tons of fun and I plan on continuing to do the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES web comic over the next year barring any unforeseen issues.
I’m also noticing here on my personal website at www.scottmccullar.com (which the URL for seashantyfunnies.com also directs itself to) is now getting an average of 1,200 traffic site visits a day and growing. I believe that is due to many of you reading this here on my website are perhaps non-Facebook Popeye fans and not doing so my Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/seashantyfunnies.
That, again, was unexpected and blows my mind.
However, it is now time and has become necessary that I begin implementing some changes for the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES publication schedule as I take next steps in the things that I want to do.
I need to adjust things with SEA SHANTY FUNNIES going on as I prepare to also relaunch my creator-owned comic project THRILL SEEKER COMICS into its “new era” iteration while continuing to work on SEA SHANTY FUNNIES that I love to do.
Working on SEA SHANTY FUNNIES has been totally fun and a fantastic creative experiment. I am getting alot of joy out of this. I am still fine-tuning what I'm doing and learning from this experience.
I want to continue making more Popeye comics and have big plans, but I also want to give my independent creator-owned comic series THRILL SEEKER COMICS a renewed fresh breath of life that I think working on SEA SHANTY FUNNIES these last four months has taught me some lessons to take over there to my other comic series.
Beginning today, it is necessary that SEA SHANTY FUNNIES publication schedule for the foreseeable future is moving to a “three days a week” release schedule only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. However, the size of the comic strip will be “doubled” with two rows and will be the extended size JUST LIKE the length of today’s "two-panel row" comic strip. I really don’t think you’re getting “less” content per week. It is just that the frequency will be three and not five days a week and in a longer format. I will also continue to post a “Spotlight” on a character in the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES UNIVERSE every Satruday over the next year.
Behind the scenes, I’m working on wrapping up production on several actual print comic books for this year (including some SEA SHANTY FUNNIES collections thus far and a surprise or two). I’m knee-deep in pre-production for sending FOUR books to the printer over the next 8 weeks. And I’m dealing with some distribution things for both print and online comics.
I also have one really big new sumthin’ something coming up that I will be sharing in about a month once some details get hammered out. That’s called a teaser.
If I can juggle all that I am hoping to juggle and not drop any chainsaws in the air --- and this works out -- I hope that I will be able to publish the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES web comic online on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays while I also relaunch THRILL SEEKER COMICS as a web comic drawn in the new “animated” style to be released pretty much on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning later this summer. I'm working toward that goal.
I just need to finish up some comic book projects and get them to the printer. And I need to set up some other structural things to put in place that will allow me to continue to work on web comics in my free time more efficiently.
Of course, as always as I say, my comic work is always done in my personal spare time outside of my day job. I will need to take breaks here and there for vacations, rest, to catch on things, and other various personal reasons both pre-planned and having to adjust on the fly when life throws me unexpected curveballs from time-to-time making me readjust and when it is necessary for me to take a break. I am trying to maintain a balanced life. Believe it or not!
But at least I have a plan in place that I am now implementing that I both feel good about and believe will make things run smoother for me.
I hope you will continue to enjoy and stay on board for SEA SHANTY FUNNIES in the future – no matter what course we set. I am making course corrections as I type.
See you in the funny pages...
Hold Fast!
Thanks,
Scott
p.s. I would love it if one of you 1,200 people visiting each day would just simply say "hello" here on my Blog and let me know you're reading this as I've had NO interaction with readers on this website. Are you a figment of my imagination or are you real?
