Larry Schlekewy...
(a.k.a. 'Slickaway'; a.k.a. 'Slick')
...has been working as a professional graphic artist since his teens in rural North Carolina. Schlekewy’s work ranges all the way from the comics industry to vehicle wraps and apparel design/graphics, brochure and business card layout/design, to corporate identity and logo design; he has worked on comic books, trading cards, posters, illustration compendiums, album and book covers, and provided character designs for a variety of publishing companies. Schlekewy even briefly taught art at a private school immediately before his brief stint at Marvel Comics in 2000 where he inked Joe Bennett's artwork on the first three issues of the 'X-51: Machine Man' title.
Slickaway has also worked for Image Comics ( Parts Unknown), London Night Studios (Razor, Stryke, Poizon, etc.), Lightning Comics, High Impact, Chaos, Sirius, and others.
He has worked as a plotter and writer, a sequential artist, a commercially-successful graphic artist, an inker, an art director, an editor, a colorist, background artist, designer, layout artist, business manager and independent marketing executive over the last 16 years.
His passion, however, has always been for comics.
AHollowMan, for instance, has been in the works since Slickaway was a young 13 years old.
There are nine more projects to follow over the years; they too have been in development for more than a decade.
PERSONALITY PROFILE:
Name: Larry Leon Schlekewy, Jr.
A.K.A.: SLiCK, SLiCKAWAY
Affiliation/s: STUDiO 1, VanGogh's Motherboard
Favorite Authors: Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Terry Brooks, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. LeGuin, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, J. Michael Stracynski, Alan Grant, Neil Gaiman, Harper Lee, Langston Hughes, etc.
Favorite Artists: Barron Storey, Dave McKean, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Michael Turner, Brian Stelfreeze, Adam Hughes, Georges Jeanty, Steve Scott, Dan Parsons, Jacen Burroughs, Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons, Phil Winslade, Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, Nat Jones, Frank Frazetta, Eyvind Earle, Bev Doolittle, Ansel Adams, Leonardo DaVinci, Michael Turner, Ryan Benjamin, Whilce Portacio, Alex Ross, Skye Owens, Joseph Michael Linsner, Greg Williams, Michael Golden, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, J. Scott Clarke, Andrew Jackson, Rob Gonsalvez, Salvadore Dali, Gustav Klimt, Vladimir Kush, and so many more that I had better stop now.
Favorite Photographer: Ansel Adams, my wife, my step-daughters Jennifer & Christen (they must take after their mother)
Favorite Cartoons: Transformers (80's), G. I. Joe (80's), Voltron, Gatchaman (G-Force), Silverhawks, Thundercats, Flip Side, Dungeons and Dragons, He-Man, Johnny Quest, Ju\stice League, Batman, Starship Troopers, Beast Wars, Herculoids, Space Ghost (pre late-night talk show), etc.
Favorite Television (Vintage): Good Times, All In The Family, Jeffersons, What's Happening, Greatest American Hero, Manimal, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Northern Exposure, Babylon 5, Voyagers, Mutual Of Omaha: Wild Kingdom, etc.
Favorite Television (Current): The First 48, To Catch A Predator, The New Detectives, Cold Case Files, The Universe, The Sopranos, Dead Wood, Dawsons' Creek (reruns), Deep Blue, Forensic Files, anything about ancient Egypt, etc.
Music: Blues, rock, hip hop, classical, jazz: Sublime, Type-O-Negative, Rage Against The Machine, Boston, Keith Urban, Cowboy Mouth, NIN, Joe Satriani, Biggie Smallz, Jay-Z, Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, B. B. King, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Danny Elfman, John Williams, OutKast, Bun-B, Jimmi Hendrix, TomPetty, Eric B and Rakim, Group Home, MOBB Deep, Cunning Linguists, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Jerry Lee Lewis, Beatles, Doors, Kool G Rap, Kool No D, Tool, Police, Billy Idol, System Of A Down, Blue October, Temple Of The Dog, Pearl Jam,. Stone Temple Pilots, Moby, Prodigy, Radioactive Goldfish, Biohazard, Onxy, Cypress Hill, Depeche Mode, Bush, etc.
Movies: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, 300, Sin City, Goodfellas, Scarface, Dark City, Sound of Music, Matrix, Star Wars, Skeleton Key, Fallen, and many many more. Anything by Tarantino, Rodriguez, Scorsese, Coppola, Stone, Shamayalan, Lucas, Speilberg, etc. If it's got a great script, great story, great characters, great director, great actors or any combination of the above...I'm at least checking it out while reserving the right to hate it at will.
