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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Scott McCullar - Official Texas Rangers Baseball Fan

My wife Jennifer just gave me a belated birthday present that arrived in the mail moments ago. For the last four years, I’ve been watching the Texas Rangers games regularly with her on MLB tv (because the Cardinals games are “blacked out” here in Central Illinois from television viewing.) A couple of seasons ago I realized I knew the Rangers inside out and was following them closer than the Cardinals. Two years ago I converted over to being a Rangers fan because I couldn’t even tell you the Cardinals lineup any longer and I was cheering on the boys from Arlington. .

Last year, Jennifer had a hard talk with me and declared that I had converted over to being an official Rangers fan at the start of the last season. I told her early in June that the Rangers were going to the World Series and they did. She then bought me my first Rangers baseball cap last year. This season she got the powder blue one that I mentioned I loved. 

So, here I am. I’m a Texas Rangers convert now married to one of the biggest Ranger fans you’ll ever meet. It is official it seems. Go Rangers! I’ll see you at the ballpark this summer.

Friday, March 01, 2024

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.

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

New Interview with Me


There is a new interview with me conducted by Sean Taylor that has been posted at this website BAD GIRLS, GOOD GUYS, AND TWO-FISTED ACTION that focuses on my recent resurgence brining back THRILL SEEKER COMICS and my views on storytelling.

Hope you enjoy.

Scott

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

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.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Popeye 95th Birthday


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

Friday, January 05, 2024

Coming up for air with an observation


I finished up this evening some of the online comic strips. Right now, I'm getting to the end of January's artwork. I work on those comics strips on Wednesday and Thursday evenings mainly. The rest of the week and weekends, I'm working on the upcoming THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY comic books. I think this is the busiest I've been drawing comics and I'm having fun. A few years back, I bought a Wacom Cintiq Pro touch monitor screen that I draw directly upon with a digital pen. I have all sorts of digital brushes to use. My "go to" pen is the Milton Caniff inker pen based on the style of the TERRY AND THE PIRATES, STEVE CANYON, and MALE CALL writer/artist who inspired me to do these comic strips. Again, I'm having a good time doing these. I wish it could be my full-time job but this is my side hustle hobby that I do for the love of it. Jack Kirby was right that working in comics will break your heart, but I'm scratching that creative itch. I hope those of you that are choosing to read my comics strips and pick up my comic book are enjoying them. 

Let me know if you are and your comments could end up in my next letter column in issue #2.

Thanks and ALL THE BEST!

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Sunday, December 24, 2023

Read the 1st Adventure of MS. TITTENHURST: FINDER OF LOST THINGS for FREE!

 


A Little Christmas Bonus Surprise for You!
Think of this prologue as a prequel to the WEBISODE ADVENTURES that begin right here next week beginning on January 1st! Get yourself primed by reading the FIRST STORY of MS. TITTENHURST: FINDER OF LOST THINGS that is taken from the recently released THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY #1. Read as our Dame Detective with Hips, Lips, and Quite a Quip sees if she has what it takes in her new job and future cases...
 
(The complimentary free story to read is on the front page of the Thrill Seeker Comics website if you scroll down to the middle!)
 
Happy Holidays!
from Scott and Jennifer McCullar

Friday, December 22, 2023

My THRILLSEEKERCOMICS.COM Website has been Updated


 

As we get ready for the New Year, we did some housecleaning and updated/upgraded the look and function of the thrillseekercomics.com website.

If you haven't visited in a while, I invited you to stop by and visit.