Part 1: Focusing on Kickliy's art reinvention following his accident, discovering Monet and creating Musnet and Purdy

New episode - Kickliy Interview! with Kickliy Yilkcik

This is a long interview and you can experience it in a few different ways. Links as always at https://talkingjoe.co.uk/

YouTube - Full interview with minimal edits, it has talking heads and visuals of art shared on screen https://youtu.be/4jzsJ81oRBo

Full Audio Interview. This is the audio only version of the full YouTube interview, with audio edits for clean up. http://cast.rocks/hosting/15498/Kickliy-full.mp3

For a shorter listen, audio split into 2 parts:

Part 1: Focusing on Kickliy's art reinvention following his accident, discovering Monet and creating Musnet and Purdy

Part 2: All things GI Joe (rediscovering the Joe toys, discovering Garrido, his GI Joe art) plus State Fair and live Sports paining.

I've attached some of the images we refer to in our conversation.

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.