Rod McKie Illustrations and Cartoons

Cartoons and illustrations for Playboy, The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Readers Digest(USA), Prospect (UK), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, National Lampoon, The Phoenix (Ire), Marian Heath Greeting Cards, and various publications worldwide. rodmckie-at-lycos.com

Monday, June 26, 2006

Works in Progress 3: The Bee-Man

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The Bee Man is the most labour-intensive project I'm working on at the moment. I actually took a break from it to finish all the Eddie ...
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Works in Progress 2: Eddie

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Eddie and the Banshee is just about finished. I'm going to tighten up the story and finalise the layout and that'll be that; until t...
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Works in Progress 1: New Cartoons.

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I've drawn about 50 new cartoons and some have already started to age, which is the problem with cartoons about transient contemporary p...

Blogger Nightmare

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What a 'mare Blogger can be at times. I've just spent a fruitless period trying to update my Cartoon Fiend blog, but Blogger keeps ...
Thursday, June 08, 2006

I mentioned you in Dispatches.

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One of my favourite cartoons is an old Punch cartoon by Michael Ffolkes, a couple of soldiers, in the trenches, and one is saying to the oth...
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Violence, Mott the Hoople were wrong!

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'Violence, it's the only thing that'll make you see sense' . Well, that was easy for big-haired Ian (a man with wringlets) t...

Damn, but Blogger can be quirky

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Well, I haven't slipped, it's just that Blogger can be a trifle duifficult at times. I spent hours try ing to get Dave (Loose Parts...
Monday, May 29, 2006

Da Vinci Code, Poussin, and Arnold Wagner

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I haven't read the book, and I won't be going to see the Da Vinci Code movie. It's mainly balderdash and besides, do you really...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

Time to Vent

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I haven't really had a good rant for a while, so I've stored up one or two little niggles. I'm pissed on behalf of the English a...
Monday, May 15, 2006

Spectator Cartoons get worse.

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Let me make my position clear on this; I know exactly where I fit into the cartoon firmament. I get paid $800 a cartoon, but often work for ...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Defrag My Puny Brain.

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My God! I forgot my password to this blog all day yesterday. I keep all my passwords in my head. For some reason they store in that normall...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Cartoon Fiend updated!

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I've been busy on the Cartoon Fiend blog, where I've added interviews with Peter (Apocalypse Nerd, Hate) Bagge, Rick (Baby Blues) Ki...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

The Cult of Bod!

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Man, that Ian Ellery just blew my mind. He stuck a finger up my nasal-cavity reached in and swirled my brain around, like a swizzle-stick a...
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The Cartoon Fiend!

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Okay, here's what happened. I know a lot of cartoonists, and I'm a real cartoon fan - what you might call a geek (for cartoons). I h...
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Friday, April 14, 2006

Awards Ceremonies

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As a British cartoonist I've always Admired the NCS of America's Reubens Awards Ceremony. It's a real black tie affair, which ...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

Little Cenobites mini comic

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I'm still waiting for Shoitcrock to get here, but that's hardly surprising as it's parcel post, which takes forever. I've p...

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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My goodness me. Talking about smoking cartoons, I drew a cartoon about anti-smoking regulations in 2004, it was about New York and it featur...
Monday, April 03, 2006

Thank you Stephanie.

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My friend, cartoonist Stephanie Piro , sent my daughter Dominique a surprise package today containing one of Stephanie's brilliant tees....

Hey Matt

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Matt, I sent that one out a month or so ago. Maybe Phoenix used it, I'm not sure. I didn't know people could post. Hope you'r...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

The Chatter

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You might spot a current theme (well themes) on a couple of the cartooning blogs I link to. It's old TV shows and dolls, er, action fig...
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Draws cartoons and illustrations for publications from all over the world including Playboy, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Readers Digest, and National Lampoon.
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