Kickliy Interview - Full Audio. This is the audio only version of the full YouTube interview (which has talking heads and images shared on screen). There are some small audio edits for clean up.

I will do an edit that splits this interview into 2 parts. Here is the full version.

Kickliy , based in Minnesota has been publishing and making art professionally for over twenty years

He is well known to G.I. Joe fans for his amazing G.I. Joe pieces. We cover those, but also the artistic path that led him there.

This is a long old chat, and it takes a while to get into his GI joe drawing (around 43 mins in) but i think our listeners often enjoy the "long way around"

Running order:

Kickliy's name

Car accident and reinvention from Sam Hiti identity

Musnet: the Mouse of Monet & Monet's house

Working with goache paint, Guarrido

Rediscovering gi joe toys and painting them

Discovering the GI Joe comic & drawing GI Joe

David Choe's giant GI Joe commission

State fair

Sports painting

Tiempos finales (current comic project)

GI joe sketches

Perdy

As a prominent creator and artist, Kickliy has worked for companies Nike, Coca-cola, Nickelodeon, Disney and World Book. His creations have been optioned in Hollywood for live-action movies and he has done development work for Universal Studios, Focus Features, and others.

Kickliy’s narrative art & book illustration work coveres genres such as Westerns (Perdy), action (Tiempos Finales), science fiction, science education, children’s books (Waga's Big Scare), Kickliy’s 40+ books are published in the United States and Europe.

Expanding into Sports as an Official Pro Sports Artist, Kickliy has provided art for the PGA, Minneota Vikings and more.

Links:

https://www.kickliy.com/

https://twitter.com/kickliy

https://www.instagram.com/yilkcik/ and https://www.instagram.com/kickliysports/

Articles

:

https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/minnesota-twins/with-minnesota-as-his-muse-kickliy-documents-twins-season-through-paintings-r12415

https://lakeminnetonkamag.com/painter-finds-inspiration-on-the-shores-of-tonka-bay/

Bibliography https://www.babelio.com/auteur/-Kickliy/396422

About Perdy https://imagecomics.com/features/kickliy-ventures-into-the-wild-west-with-the-raucous-perdy