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, July 21, 2007

Literally Hundreds of People have asked me...

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Yeah, those of you who are familiar with this blog know that means 'one' person happened to ask, in passing, but you must admit that...

Where Did the Funny Go?

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"If it's such a good aphrodisiac, how come there are only forty nine of us?" You know, a bunch of us were admiring the work of...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Haunting Story of Pascal

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Late last year I stumbled across Insekt, by Sascha Hommer, on the Serializer site . I was enraptured by the strange and haunting story of li...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The Delight that is Dexter

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I know it's wrong, because it is the worst kind of stereotyping, but we do 'create' the author of any text in our head as we con...

Tobias Tak's The House of Pamplemousse

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Illustrator Tobias Tak’s stories are fabulous, in fact I'd use the term 'fantastic', in the true literary sense because if ever ...
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Monday, July 16, 2007

Rod's usual styles of drawing...

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'Rod's usual styles of drawing', my chum, cartoonist Dan Collins , said that when he was talking about the National Lampoon book...
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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Yeahah! imanga!

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I just posted something on my imanga blog. Took some time didn't it? It's a little bit about MPD Psycho (多重人格探偵サイコ - Tajuu Jinkaku T...

Where to Begin?

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The odd thing is that so many of those people who profess to dislike Manga , seem to think that ' Manga ' means some kind of generic...

The story so far

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Those of you who are familiar with the story I am illustrating (well the one I am currently focusing on so I can finish it and deliver the n...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Grim news all round.

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Playboy cartoonist Robert 'Buck' Brown, passed away just the other day. I'd like to show you one of Buck Brown's colour car...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

Playboy Jitters

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It must be nerves. I have now inked 8 versions of a rough for Playboy. The Playboy Cartoon Department wants a minor change, but for some re...
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Woody Guthrie Cartoon Tribute

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Isn't this just a marvelous idea? The book, This Toon is Your Toon , is the brainchild of Stephanie Piro and John Nolan, and it really i...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Email Problems

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Just a quick note prior to the weekend's post. My fellow cartoonist Nik Scott tells me there is something amiss with my email so an alt...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The late, great, Bud Handelsman, and his excellent family

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Bud Handlesman's family dropped me an email, despite the fact that they were, and are, still grieving, to say thanks for mentioning Bud...
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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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