SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - KEY MOMENT Episode 12

 

 

In our current storyline, it appears that Boola the Giant had kidnapped Bernice the Whiffle Hen in which Popeye is setting sail to rescue her. However, Popeye has encountered Boola before earlier in his life "before the War" where the two-headed giant was an enslaved henchman for Sindbad the Sailor. And appears to still be at this point in our storyline. We will catch up with Boola, Sindbad, and the Sea Hag soon.

 

In the meantime, here is a "flashback" to a KEY MOMENT in Popeye's history where we see a snapshot of Boola and Popeye about to engage in a fight. This classic cartoon by the Fleischer Studios from 1936 is one of my favorites. If not a favorite with most fans of Popeye's cartoons. The character Boola has made some guest appearances in the comic strips in cameos but was a creation of Fleischer Studios. The cartoon "POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS SINDBAD THE SAILOR" is in the public domain and can be found easily if you want to do a search on YouTube to watch it.

 

Boola is one of my favorite characters from the Popeye universe that comes to us from the cartoons and I knew that when I began writing and drawing SEA SHANTY FUNNIES, I wanted to include him.

In my SEA SHANTY FUNNIES "alternate retro timeline", this story pretty much happened "as is" in my version of Popeye's back story before "the War" earlier in his life. Olive and Wimpy accompanied him to the Isle of Sindbad where he fought the Bluto lookalike swashbuckling mariner. 

 

Where I feel that I can, I merge the stories, characters, and elements of the newspaper comic strips, cartoons, comic books, and even elements of the movie all together into this singular alternate retro history. It all just blends into the pot together for me as one big tale. It did when I was 10 year's old. It does for me now at 55 year's old.

 

More will be revealed in the storylines, so don't ask me to clarify at this point. Just go with the flow and watch the storyline unfold.

 

This drawing is my "re-interpretation" of that famous cartoon scene.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - File Card: KING BLOZO THE THIRD

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - File Card: KING BLOZO THE THIRD

"What? Me Worry?" (Sorry, quote from wrong character).

 

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Remember that the characters, background information, and situations described in these SEA SHANTY FUNNIES File Cards may take inspiration or content from established in Popeye history from comics and cartoons (and in some cases blend separate continuities together), but in many cases, I have also injected in some twists and added my own new content and interpretation on things.

These are MY spins on the characters that pertains to my "alternate retro timeline" in SEA SHANTY FUNNIES that may NOT be true in official comics or cartoons continuity or canon of KFS.

 

I do take some creative liberties, extrapolate ideas where I see possible links to established canon, and also pull some completely new ideas out of thin air if I have a new angle or story that I want to tell on my own that adds to the mythos. Again, this is unofficial and an alternate take of my own. Thanks and enjoy!

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ "A QUICK CRACK UP↑" - Episode 9 (A "Vintage '29" Taste)

An homage to E.C. Segar. My apologies.

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 152

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ "A QUICK CRACK UP↑" - Episode 7

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - KEY MOMENT Episode 11

 

While writing the current ongoing adventure comic strip for SEA SHANTY FUNNIES, I had already written the parts with Peepeye receiving a copy of the Herman Melville book MOBY DICK from his father "Salty" Bill Barnacle who the denizens that populate my alternate retro timeline more commonly call him "Barnacle Bill". (Side note: the book has some strange whispers coming from it... hmmm??? I wonder what it is and why ??!?!? ) 

 

Then a surprise happened to me... As I was drawing the SEA SHANTY FUNNIES comic strip for last Sunday, I received an eBay purchased package in the mail of some POPEYE comics from the 1970's that I was missing in my collection. One was issue #104 that I had never read before.

 

(I'm down now to missing issues 68, 70, 90, 105, 109, 110, 116, 158, 159, and 168 to complete the full run. I digress but let me know if you have a duplicate you are willing to part with. I'm interested in buying those)

 

So, as I was reading my new comic while taking a break, call it synchronicity or kismet, but one of the stories inside I was not expecting to find was of Poopdeck Pappy recounting to Swee'Pea a tale of himself from his youth serving with Captain Ahab hunting Moby Dick. So, I just had to add this little nod to my own story from a 1970 comic book by George Wildman. It wonderfully ties into some things going on now and something coming up in the future. This happenstance now seems more relevant and almost fated for me to find as this especially connects for something for Poopdeck Pappy and what we will learn.

 

So, today's KEY MOMENT presented itself even to me this past week to learn and discover!!! Enjoy the recap based on story and art by the late great Popeye comic book cartoonist George Wildman (with my appreciation and apologies for re-interpreting some of his work for the this special piece.)

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - File Card: ALICE THE GOON

 

(I didn't had time to draw a new comic strip last night. Sorry. So, here's a new file card in lieu of that.)

"Go ask Alice"...

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Remember that the characters, background information, and situations described in these SEA SHANTY FUNNIES File Cards may take inspiration or content from established in Popeye history from comics and cartoons (and in some cases blend separate continuities together), but in many cases, I have also injected in some twists and added my own new content and interpretation on things.

These are MY spins on the characters that pertains to my "alternate retro timeline" in SEA SHANTY FUNNIES that may NOT be true in official comics or cartoons continuity or canon of KFS.

I do take some creative liberties, extrapolate ideas where I see possible links to established canon, and also pull some completely new ideas out of thin air if I have a new angle or story that I want to tell on my own that adds to the mythos. Again, this is unofficial and an alternate take of my own. Thanks and enjoy!

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SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ "A QUICK CRACK UP↑" - Episode 6

 

SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - File Card: COLE OYL

 

Here is a New Bonus Feature I want to try out for those days when I am unable to take the time to draw a comic strip but I can still take 30 minutes to crank out one of these faster using some of my "stock" character pin ups I've previously drawn if I keep it this small and succinct. I figure this might be fun and also helpful to put out some abbreviated mini-biographical reference cards to characters running around in these SEA SHANTY FUNNIES stories of mine based on established characters as well as new character creations of my own. 

 

These file cards are inspired by case files from Dick Tracy comic strips and... um... yes... even the back of carded G.I. Joe action figures with those file cards. 

 

Remember that the characters, background information, and situations described in these bios and artwork may take inspiration or content from established Thimble Theatre and Popeye history, but in many cases, I have also injected in some twists and added new content that pertains to my "alternate retro timeline" in SEA SHANTY FUNNIES that may NOT be true in official comics or cartoons continuity or canon. These are MY spin on the characters.

 

Also, there are other creators doing their unofficial own takes on Popeye and I know for a fact that in many instances my takes and backgrounds on the characters DO NOT line up with their takes. And that is totally fine because this is like a multiverse where we each can do our own versions.

I do take some creative liberties, extrapolate ideas where I see possible links to established canon, and also pull some completely new ideas out of thin air if I have a new angle or story that I want to tell on my own that adds to the mythos. Again, this is unofficial and an alternate take of my own. Thanks and enjoy!

 

Oh, and by the way, Olive did have distinctive nephews in some of the earliest Segar Pre-Popeye comic strips in 1920 that were not the children of Castor Oyl that are all now but forgotten. but you can read about soon in these nifty new archived collections of THIMBLE THEATRE dailies that are starting to come out. I digress.

 

Have a great day!