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

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 87

 

Update on SEA SHANTY FUNNIES and THRILL SEEKER COMICS Publishing Schedule

 

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?