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

Saturday, February 17, 2007

A bit back-trouble

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I've done very little for the past 2 weeks on account of back-trouble. I really injured my back badly early last year. I have a treadmil...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Johnny Morte on Comics Space

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I just put the first 5 pages of my comic book Johnny Morte, on Comic Space . I've finished the first comic book and I set out to make ...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

Livin' It.

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I took a few days rest to read some Manga , Atsushi Kaneko's Soil (his artwork reminds me of Charles Burn's drawings) and Seizon...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The Wisenheimer school of Cartoon Art

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As you might expect of a highly respected member of the cartooning business, I am a member of a secret cartoon society, heck bent on World D...
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I Manga coming in a day or two

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I think I have time to post the first I Manga Blog post this week. I had a long hard think about what to launch it with and I swithered a...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Dirty Dick's Bottomless Pond.

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Up past the Horseshoe (a cul-de-sac), and then along the Lang Loan (the Long Lane) past the Tip (rubbish dump) and along a little and then c...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

I Manga

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I've been a day out, twice, when it comes to posting my Lepertown comic on Web Comics Nation , but that's not bad given that I'...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Dirk Deppey - Living Resource.

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I had some respect for Dirk Deppey before yesterday. He has been singularly resposible for increasing and informing my interest in Manga an...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

R.I.P Harry Horse and Mandy, his beloved wife.

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The death of Richard (Harry Horse) Horne , ( Scotsman article here ) and his wife Mandy, is incredibly sad. In fact, it's heart breaking...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

More Tommy Apple.

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Today's Lepertown episode on WCN is a one-pager from my Tommy Apple story. I've redrawn this now because Old Robert, as he looks ...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Happy New Year

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Actually, in work terms, New Year was over long ago. In drunky terms of course, it was not. So I hope you have all recovered and resolved t...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Thank you DC/Wildstorm and the Albion team.

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I was just made-up to recieve 3 copies of the collected Albion today (can I call it a graphic novel?), from DC/Wildstorm - courtesy of Fed-E...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Happy Holidays.

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My special holiday greetings go out to the fantastically talented Leah Moore, John Reppion and their team, and to the extremely hard work...
Monday, December 18, 2006

A (comic) book of delights, that's Nick Mag.

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I hate posts on noticeboards and websites where people say 'a lot of people ask me' and you think well who? Who are they who ask? I ...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Updated WebComic Nations site with the Tammyclava.

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I suspect a lot of the trends of the 60s were inspired by surplus goods. The 'trend' for haversacks as school bags came around quite...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Got a new Prospect in the post today

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I did some real slap-happy painting with this cartoon for the January 2007 issue of Prospect (Good Heavens, the new year jobs have begun al...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Bunty

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Ha, my cousin Allan always made fun of me for reading American comics, and yet all the time he was laughing at my DC/Marvel/Charlton/Harvey,...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Early Comic work

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I got a note in the post asking for some original comic pages from THE PAST (imagine 'the past' is written all wiggley ). There are ...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Super Hero Guys

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Well, I finished redrawing the Super Guys (see below). I've posted the entire story on Web Comics Nation , but tightened it up a bit and...
Friday, December 01, 2006

I become older on the 28th of November.

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It came and went, and I do feel older, but then I always did. I am still in my 40s. I am worried about becoming 50 one day, but then I worri...
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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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