Talking Joe: A G.I. Joe Comics Podcast Talking Joe - Mark

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

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.

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.

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

TJ 250 - DISAVOWED - G.I.JOE VS. THE TRANSFORMERS III: THE ART OF WAR

Mark and Tim are continue to look at the mini series and one-shots that were coming out during the America’s Elite Era of GI Joe Disavowed from Devils Due.

And today it is G.I.JOE VS. THE TRANSFORMERS III: THE ART OF WAR – a 5 issue mini series from Devil's Due running March to August 2006 . It was collected as a TPB from Devils due in 2006 and as GI Joe vs Transformers volume 3 from IDW in April 2013 (containing The Art of War and also Black horizon).

Creative Team
Script: Tim Seeley,
Pencils: Joe Ng with Alex Milne & James Raiz,
Inks: Rob Ross, M3th,
Colors: Kevin Yan, Rob Ruffalo, Tom Liu,
Letters: Brian J. Crowley,
Editor: Mike O'Sullivan,
Art produced by Udon, Udon Chief: Erik Ko,
Special Thanks to Mark Powers

New (sort of) episode! Wordburglar interviews Mike Costa - COBRA: THE LAST LAUGH
Audio only episodes via your Podcaster of choice; links at https://talkingjoe.co.uk/
Or on Wordburglar's channel with talking head videos https://youtu.be/8eYJkEkM5cY

Sean J. Burg interviews Mike Costa; A rare, extensive and enlightening comics conversation with writer Mike Costa, focused on his seminal IDW comics G.I.JOE work, COBRA: THE LAST LAUGH series. This is an encore audio only presentation on an interview previously broadcast in August 2023 for ARMOR3*.

Friend of the show, Wordburglar, had the chance to interview comic book writer Mike Costa about his seminal IDW comics work on COBRA THE LAST LAUGH and beyond. In this extensive (enterprises) interview, Mike provided a lot of awesome insight into his stories, the origins of the book, how he worked with co-write Christos Gage, and how he worked with Hasbro, the characters, and more.

*This was originally part of Codename Iowa's ARMOR 3 online convention alongside many other video segments ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJqdbYpr-Ck / https://www.codenameiowa.com) . Wordburglar also has a video version on his own channel (https://youtu.be/8eYJkEkM5cY ) . The videos are talking heads - so you aren't missing on any additional visuals with Audio only version.

Wordburglar:
Sean Jordan better known by his stage name Wordburglar, is a . and GI Joe fan and Canadian hip hop artist, mixing killer beats and lyics with all things geek; and best known to GI Joe community for album Welcome to Cobra Island (featuring somgs such as I Don't Wanna Go to Cobra-La). His latest video, 1980 FORCE is a GI joe filled delight,if you have not seen it, head on over to youTube to check it out – it is taken from his latest comic book themed album, The Spinner rack can be found over at Bandcamp.
Wordburglar can be found on Talking joe episodes 89 and 239.
As a bonus we include at the end of the interview Wordburglar's track from WELCOME TO COBRA ISLAND - Track 12 - Chuckles (The Last Laugh) (beat by Fresh Kils)
http://wordburglar.com/

Mike Costa & Cobra:
Mike Costa’s work on cobra started with GI Joe issue 0, spinning off into GI Joe Cobra 1-4, followed by Volume 2 1-13 the conclusion of which led into the Cobra civil war and 21 issues of volume 3, nine issues of GI Joe Cobra Files and concluding with 5 issues of Snake Eyes: Agent of Cobra. The initial run, with co-writer Christos Gabe and Artist Antonio Fuso was collected as Cobra: The Last Laugh in a hard to find hardcover from IDW- and represents the most significant GI Joe storytelling since the early Marvel run from Larry Hama
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/mike-costa/4040-52883/issues-cover/

TJ 248 - COBRA COMMANDER 2 & 3 - SKYBOUND ENERGON UNIVERSE

Mark and Tim are looking at Cobra Commander #2 & 3 released 21st February & 20th March 2024. It is touted as a horror book, but what do the boys think of the heightened violence and gore in these issues?
Cover images:
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/6939008/cobra-commander-2
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4977362/cobra-commander-3
Creative Team:
Writer: Joshua Wiliamson
Artist: Andrea Milana
Colorist: Analisa Leoni
Letterer: Rus Wooton
Editors: Sean Mackiewicz & Jonathan Manning