New SEA SHANTY FUNNIES comic strip tomorrow...

Things are getting a little better and more manageable for me on the home-front. I'm ready to get back to the digital drawing board this evening.

Come back tomorrow as I will be posting a new SEA SHANTY FUNNIES comic strip tomorrow featuring our pal Popeye. Barring any unforeseen disasters. All is good!

Thanks!

Scott 

 

Update - I'm still in the process of migrating to a new website plus when it rains it pours

 

It has been a heck of a few weeks. Like I mentioned before, I had some unexpected hurdles thrown at me all at once in my personal life. For those readers of my SEA SHANTY FUNNIES web comic strip featuring the public domain-based POPEYE, I apologize that we've had to take an unplanned break.

Life happens.

First, we got hit by storms. A giant tree fell in my yard due to tornado like weather that took out power lines and my Internet connection. And part of my backyard fence. We went from winter, to spring like storms, tornado weather, then blizzard weather, then near 90 degree summer weather all here in Central Illinois in the span of 10 days.

 

Well, the 80 ft. giant tree is still laying in my yard at the moment, but AT&T fixed the lines that got my Internet back up.

 

Then my puppy Lulu got accidentally poisoned a week ago and I had to rush her to ER Vet hospital. Thankfully, she is doing fine a week later. She accidentally ate half an Acetaminophen tablet instead of a Benedryl tablet that looked the same. Which is deadly to dogs. Thankfully the dose wasn't fatal. There was an unexpected $700 bill to help save her life... but you'll do anything to save those pups.

And then, as many of you know who come to this website (especially to read SEA SHANTY FUNNIES), my website was having problems with the registrar and not loading correctly. Giving an "unsecure site" notice. And just down at times. Well, I decided heck with it all here with Blogger and just went ahead and spent the money to launch my own new official website at www.scottmccullar.com that will no longer be here on Blogger.

I spent part of the weekend (while nursing Lulu) re-designing a new website. I had problems getting it to populate correctly and was on a service call last night (Monday) with Network Solutions who is hosting my website and they got me up and running. You can see the new site live right now... however... it isn't fully ready yet. 

However, I did launch an online store to sell two of my comics here domestically in the U.S. I need to check on international shipping prices to see what that sells for...but the priority mail was something like $52 which is outrageous. I need to see if there is a lesser cost that I can plug in.

There is a "basic" blog at the new site. However, there isn't much functionality that I can see. I don't see hash tagging or archiving. And there isn't a place for people to respond.  I still like Blogger for just blogging.

Both SEA SHANTY FUNNIES and THRILL SEEKER COMICS are just "pages" within my personal website.  I've got a carousel slider with some of the comic strips from the past month loading in with a third party app, but I'm not happy with it. I'm going to find a new solution this week and hopefully have brand new website for both SEA SHANTY FUNNIES and THRILL SEEKER COMICS to stand alone on their own by this time next week. I'm also trying to find a new solution for having all of the web comics easily accessible to sort through and read. So please stay tuned and hang in there with me.

I intend to have a new comic strip out for SEA SHANTY FUNNIES on Thursday. I will do some drawing on it tonight and tomorrow (Wednesday). Right now, that might be it for this week. I need to get myself back together and refocus on a few things. I also have a bunch of packages to mail out... so if I owe you something... hang tight.

Thanks,

Scott 

We'll be back Next Week. Technical Difficulties.

 

 

Sorry, I'm dealing with multiple technical difficulties on top of also being behind the 8-Ball with other unforeseen events that hit me this week that are preventing me from working on the comic strip that was to be released today. 

 

For those of you having problems coming to this website, I apologize. I'm trying to work with the webhosting site as I get things fixed here. For some reason, they turned off the forwarding to Blogger where I host my site and I'm having problems. 

 

I'll be back when I can be back. It should be hopefully Monday if I can get all these fires put out over the weekend. I do have what was going to be today's comic strip half drawn at the moment before I got hit with all of these multiple things that I'm dealing with. 

 

A bright note, I do have the hand drawn sketches inked and drawn for those winners that won in the free contest and told me what they wanted for me to draw. They've been sitting on my desk for the past few days. Sorry. I think just one person was still needing to get back to me. I just need to package them up and mail them out on Saturday morning with the help of Mrs. McCullar. 

 

I'll give an update as soon as I can after I put out all these fires on the homefront. Thank you for understanding.

Website Troubles

I woke up Thursday morning to find my website was offline and the URL forwards were not working correctly making it look like this was an unsecured site. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I do believe that it has to do with my registrar of where I host my domain names that I own and how I have forwarding go to this address where my website is hosted on Blogger. Or maybe something else. I don't know.

I am investigating what is happening. I'm trying to create some workarounds with direct links here on Blogger. I need to figure out some things and I apologize for broken links and troubles.

I'll post more once I know what happened and how to fix this.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 91

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 90

 

A surprise extra bonus comic strip for today. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

We will return to our current storyline tomorrow, but I thought we'd check in with some of our other friends on this special day.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 89

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Character Spotlight: Poopdeck Pappy

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 88