A Great 1 Hour Talk About Creativity, Art, Commerce & Collecting with Your Kids
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this special New Year’s episode, I sit down with Jim Rugg and DJ to break down exactly where the VeeFriends comics universe is headed in 2026. I talk about my history as a storyteller — from the games I made up as a kid to how that foundation turned into VeeFriends.
We get into a real conversation about the “starving artist” myth and why it’s broken. Commercial success doesn’t ruin creativity — it protects it. I share why the comic industry needs to stop gatekeeping, start onboarding new fans, and think bigger about long-term relevance. Hope you enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Podcast friends, how are you? Happy New Year. Hope everybody's having the best, best, best, |
| 0:03.9 | 2026. A very special episode here of the podcast talking about creativity, ideas, art, |
| 0:11.2 | storytelling, comic books. A real in-depth look to the depth of not the commercial side per se, |
| 0:17.6 | but the storytelling and the creative process and the emotional intelligence and |
| 0:23.1 | parenting and downright creative side of V-Friends, my Pokemon, my Star Wars, my Harry Potter, |
| 0:30.0 | my Care Bears, and My Little Pony. I think this is going to be a really fun listen. I think you're |
| 0:34.2 | going to see a different side of me and it. And I hope you enjoy this podcast. And please hit me up on all my socials. Leave a comment on my Instagrams or tweet me or send me an email. Like, I have a feeling this one's gonna hit for a lot of you. And I also think this is gonna bring a lot of value to a lot of you that have kids between two and eight years old. Wait for that at the end. And let me know how you like this. This is the Gary Vee audio experience. |
| 0:58.4 | Happy New Year, everyone. |
| 0:59.8 | Jim, DJ. |
| 1:01.1 | Happy New Year, Gary. |
| 1:02.2 | It's going to be an exciting year, |
| 1:04.5 | 2026, I think, for us comic-wise. |
| 1:07.4 | I think we have ambitious sleep |
| 1:09.2 | and I'm excited about it. |
| 1:12.8 | I think it's gonna be a breakout year. |
| 1:15.1 | I think last year is really the breakout year. |
| 1:19.4 | But I think we'll, we'll up that in a considerable way |
| 1:26.5 | in 26 and I think, you know, it was funny. |
| 1:29.3 | It was timing in life is always so interesting. |
| 1:32.7 | I was DMing with somebody on Instagram yesterday |
| 1:37.6 | who said that they were talking to me about |
| 1:42.0 | the cards that they were buying. |
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