- Thank you Kickstarter backers:
- Danielle Ackley-McPhail
- Cat Angst
- Kayla Anttila
- Jamie Campbell
- Sharon Campbell
- Elaine Cassell
- James Chambers
- Tina Dyakon
- Scott Early
- Sandra Eckelaert
- Fotografia Di Eckelaert
- Lauren McQuillan Frank
- Bob Heyman
- Allan Holtz
- Lise W. Johnson
- Matthew K. Johnson
- Eric Knisley
- Andria Krewson
- Jay Lofstead
- Salem Macknee
- Jeff Martell
- Jeffrey Maslany
- Troy McAfee
- Andrew Neal
- Jacques E Nyemb
- Alysha Perez
- Wm Pitzer
- Michelle Quigley
- Evaristo Ramos
- Scott Singleton
- Amber Smith
- Kristjan Bjorn Snorrason
- Marti Suber
- Hugo Tadashi
- Patrick Thiel
- Patrick Thomas
- Simms Toomey
- Michael Tribble
- Lisa Trumps
- L Jamal Walton
- Alexandra Whitley
- Philip Whitley
- Joel Wilkinson
- Leslie Wilkinson
NEW!!
Sea Urchins Book III launches from Malaprop's Bookstore Café at 3pm, September 10, 2017.
“I rejoice in the idea that these guys revived, for awhile, an almost lost art, and I’m absolutely delighted to be given the chance to read the strip in collected
book form.”
book form.”
Or buy Book one at Atomic Empire!
“[Sea Urchins] stubbornly adheres to its own world, which is not quite like our own. Yet in fundamental ways, it is like our own, a world in which family members pursue quixotic goals, nurse old grudges, tease each other unmercifully and love each other unreservedly.”
— Tom Heintjes
Editor, Hogan’s Alley Magazine
Editor, Hogan’s Alley Magazine
Or buy Book two at Atomic Empire!
The story
Olie Unrun always wanted to live a life at sea. Instead, he worked at his dad's fish-oil factory and began the life of a family man. One day something in Olie snapped and he built a ship on his land... then he relocated his house to the deck of the ship and christened the whole shebang "The Banana Moon." All Olie had to do was wait for the right storm to lift his house to the sea.Now adrift, the Unruns piece together each day through a host of uncommon creatures and comic calamities.
The strip
Scott Eckelaert planted the idea for a comic strip by sending Jason Whitley a copy of Hogan's Alley Magazine after Jason had just begun working at The [Myrtle Beach] Sun News in 1999. Sea Urchins bubbled up during that summer.Part of the landscape between Myrtle Beach and Sumter, SC, was boat building in people's yards. So sprang the story of Olie and the Unrun Urchins. Between the good graces of the editor, Trisha O'Connor, the work of Features Editor Mike Morgan, and guidance of Denny Brack and Tom Heintjes, we were published first in the Sun News in 2001 and then in Penn State Blue in 2003 by editor Bob Heisse. The first year of strips was collected in 2002 by David Allen's legendary Plan 9 Publishing. Sea Urchins was also featured as an Undiscovered Gem in Heintjes' Hogan's Alley magazine in 2003.
Sea Urchins is available in these fine book shops:
Chapel Hill Comics
Rebel Base
Ultimate Comics
Fight or Flight Comics
Foundation's Edge
Delaware
Claymont
Between the BooksNorth Carolina
Asheville
Malaprop's Bookstore/CafeChapel Hill
The Bull's Head Book Shop (at UNC Student Stores)Chapel Hill Comics
Charlotte
Heroes Aren't Hard to FindRebel Base
Durham
Atomic EmpireUltimate Comics
Raleigh
Capitol Comics IIFight or Flight Comics
Foundation's Edge
- Friends of Sea Urchins:
- Richard Case
- Adam Cohen
- Kevin Dixon
- Danny Fingeroth
- Paul Freidrich
- Dustin Harbin
- Tom Heintjes
- Sandy Jarrell
- Marx Myth
- Jeremy Pinkham
- Joe Pruett
Contact us
Send an email to jason [AT] undercurrentart.com