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

Sunday, October 29, 2006

The Resurrection, of Mister Squeaky.

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Of course when I grew up I knew that the Blue Peter dogs were dying and being replaced by dopplegangers. I also knew the same was true of ...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Okay, now I'm starting to get worried.

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You may not know this, but I was in a comic once. That is to say, I was still the real me, but there was also a comic book me. The comic boo...

Happy Halloween

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It's a little early, I know, but I had to do it, so there you go. Halloween is slowly catching on over here. My kids have celebrated the...

The Indy replies.

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"Thanks Rod, I'll pass on your best wishes..." Well, the Independent didn't take me at all seriously. That was a big mist...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Is This Blatent Copyright Infringement?

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I read the Independent every day now. I find it more informative and entertaining than the Guardian . The artwork in the paper is shite, but...
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Oh God, wait, something else...

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I purloined this from Patricia Storm's site, Book Lust (must stop calling her Book Slut). It's the amended cover of the National La...

Kissing Violet Marlowe

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This is a true story. I'm pretty sure I was younger, but I may have been as old as 8 or 9. I seem to have been interested in girls from ...
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Burn Out

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Hi Tim Harries . I can't understand why there's no link to you here. I was likely waiting to put it on the Cartoonfeind site and of ...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Creating History

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You know, I've been working on a semi-autobiographical story for a while now, years actually, and it isn't really autobiographical -...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Michelle Urry, RIP.

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You know, there aren't many Cartoon Editors left. They were always thin on the ground in the UK and the Features Editor, who was obvious...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Monster!

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I'm a big Manga and Anime fan. The genre has come a long way since my youth and Gigantor and Marine boy. My current favourite, as both A...

National Lampoon's Favourite Cartoons of the 21st Century (Plug)

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Hi Ciarin, nice to hear from you. This cartoon was one of my Zingers, you know, the ones I thought would surely sell. Well it didn't, u...
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Friday, October 13, 2006

This weekend for sure.

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Thank Goodness for Blogger. I'm going to update both this and the Cartoon Fiend blog this coming weekend. My Online Cartoonist site is...
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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...
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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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