SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 122

 

Wimpy!

I visited Chester, Illinois for the first time today

My wife Jennifer and I took a mini-vacation on Monday to St. Louis to see a baseball game that night and then we did a day trip to Chester, Illinois to see the hometown of Popeye creator E.C. Segar today on Tuesday.

We had a wonderful time. We drove around town to see the statues and spent some time getting to know Debbie and Mike at Spinach Can Collectibles at the Popeye Museum. They were so very friendly.

We're back home in Springfield, Illinois this evening. It is late and I'm about to go to bed, but I thought I'd post a few photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 121

 

They write themselves...

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 120

 

Just for fun. A little weekday surprise for you outside the main ongoing storyline. These will be quick and easy for me to draw up quickly and do like this. I hope you will get a chuckle.

PHILATELY: Continuing to work with the Machin Stamps

Sunday Afternoon Leisure Time - Working on my stamp collection. This time sorting through Great Britain Machin stamps of QE2. These are always a little tougher to sort through with the variations.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 119

 

Purchase SEA SHANTY FUNNIES #1 and receive bonus SKETCH CARD with an original ink drawing by me.

 

 

For those that are still wanting to buy just the comic book, it comes to $14 shipped (U.S. Customer). I will also throw in an extra SKETCH CARD with an original quick ink drawing of a character by me as a bonus.

 

Here is a link (U.S. Customers) to the secure store (PAYPAL Payment):

 

https://scottmccullar.com/store/SEA-SHANTY-FUNNIES--1-Comic-Book-Only---NO-Fan-Club-Membership-or-Perks----U-S--Shipping--p2963575

 

Here is a link for International customers, shipping is more expensive I'm afraid. $28 (International). I will also throw in an extra SKETCH CARD with an original quick ink drawing of a character by me as a bonus.

 

https://scottmccullar.com/store/SEA-SHANTY-FUNNIES--1-Comic-Book-Only---NO-Fan-Club-Membership-or-Perks----International--p2963551

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 118

 

Your Friday Funny.

Last Night's Interview with Me is Now Available to Watch on YouTube

I'd like to thank Mathew D. Rhys and Michael Hutchison for inviting me to "Monitor Duty" podcast video chat for an interview about my work on my Public Domain-based POPEYE comic strip SEA SHANTY FUNNIES last night. The interview and chat is available to watch now over on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrEATcl5ok

I'd also like to thank the other guests in the chat and those that stopped by in the audience like Popeye expert Ryan M. Maxwell and all-around good guy, comic writer, and pal John Morgan 'Bat' Neal. Also, to those with the screen names "Cartoonicus" and "Twitless" who came into the conversation to ask me questions.

If I missed anyone last night, it is because I sometimes have difficulties with keeping track of online screen nicknames and who they are connected to with real people names. . . so sorry if I missed recognizing you if you were there. Plus, it was a flurry for me that I couldn't read all the chat on the side screen at the time.

Also thanks to my wife Jennifer McCullar who also makes a few on screen cameo appearances in the video chat with our puppy Lulu to talk about the original comic character Caldonia Kindheart that was introduced into the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES comic strip as Wimpy's new girlfriend in the current storyline.

The interview goes pretty in-depth about my creative processes and choices, public domain and legal hurdle issues, and other Popeye and comic stuff that goes into making SEA SHANTY FUNNIES. If you wanted to get a little "inside baseball" behind the scenes, there were a few other golden nugget tidbits there in the chat last night.

Fair warning, this chat runs about 2 HOURS. I re-watched it and enjoyed the replay from a third person perspective. It is kind of strange watching yourself be interviewed. I tend to ramble in my thoughts. I just realized that if I ever do another video chat for a video podcast like this again in the future, I need to lift my head up and look more into the camera next time while making eye contact. Arf! Arf!

I'm tend to fall into deep thought a lot trying to formulate my words as I wrestle with my stutter. And as my wife points out, I tend to ramble and be verbose at times. So apologies in advance.

However, I hope you'll enjoy watching the chat.

Thanks again for those that turned out last night

p.s. I also gave some brief shout outs during the chat to my pals Troy Vilayhong and Joshua Garrett in the course of discussion.

I also recognized Chuck Dixon for encouraging me to write more of these Popeye stories that led me to continuing on with SEA SHANTY FUNNIES where I've now written and illustrated over 100 episodic comic strips at this point. I had stopped at 4 "test" comic strips in February 2025 thinking this wasn't going to work and then started back up in November 2025 making more. Here I am still doing it.