SEA SHANTY FUNNIES™ - Episode 132

 

...and we're back today after that short break.

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.

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And we're back!

Happy Sunday Fun Day. Thanks for the continued support!

I'll have more updates soon. I hope you enjoy today's comic strip.

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Special thanks to my "real life" childhood friend Troy Vilayhong who truly happens to be a real life little league umpire and for allowing me to use his likeness and personality in today's brand new character for my comic strip. He is really a true life character himself and one of my best friends. He's also one of the daily readers and supporters here at SEA SHANTY FUNNIES. Thanks, pal!

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