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

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Once More into the...and all that.

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Hi, things are going well, so I'm going to start dipping my toes into the blogging-pond again - on a weekly basis at first. Before I bec...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

20th Century Boys Movie Rocks and the Sunday Times is Clueless.

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Let me explain, the Sunday Times has, in the last two weeks, published two tiny reviews of 20th Century Boys and both reviews rubbished th...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

A Comic Strip Culture

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Let me first apologise for two things, I kept promising to do a blog-piece on these strips long ago, and now that I finally get well again a...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Once More into the Breach...as it were.

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Or at any rate, "once more (slowly) into the breach", as it were. Please bear with me, I'll get up to speed eventually. This s...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Hey Everyone, thanks.

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Hey everyone, thanks for the many good wishes and the gifts and cards; they made a real difference and lifted my mood, which was very dark f...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Hope to be Back Soon

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Rod is ill at the moment. He has been quite unwell since 1st January. The doctor has been in and out and is carrying out tests. We will h...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

End of the Year Awards.

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I have a post or two to finish for the FPI blog , but I'm hoping to make this the last blog post here, on Rod McKie Illustrations and Ca...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Cartooning in the 21st Century at Forbidden Planet

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I had to condense my thoughts on the Cartoon Art Trust Awards a couple of posts down, but I've widened the debate on the Forbidden Plane...
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Cartoonist Nelson Dewey Flips you the Bird.

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I think that Pat Byrnes was inspirational here, not in a bad way, but he did encourge Nelson Dewey to come up with the "birdicon...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

The NE Ice Storm and the Lynch family

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A quick dedication to Mike and Stacy Lynch, who looked like snow-people recently. I'm guessing, knowing the guy's work ethic, that M...
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Lost in Translation, found in a Karaoke bar

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I'm a big Bill Murray fan. We didn't get SNL back in the day so my first glimpse of him was in a pirated copy of Stripes, available ...
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Sacred v Profane

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This could come in for a lot of criticism from Jonathan, the master wit and caricaturist, who before I deleted his stupid post called me ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

One year on, the corpse is online.

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I wrote a post a while back, around a year ago about a Narrative Corpse-type project that a bunch of us were working on, and I'd forgive...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

I Loved Oliver Postgate

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I hate it that Oliver Postgate is dead. More than anything that has happened in recent years, his passing reminds me of my own mortality. I...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

Confine your comments to the blog, please.

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Can I ask you to please confine your comments about these bloggings to the blog, and not to email me personally? I have it kind of segregat...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

It's Weird But...

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Borghal's piccy. Okay, I know you'll think this is weird, but I can't write anything at the moment because of the Feng Shui (wi...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Gerard Whyman, Oddly, not, Distracted, at all.

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Cartoons by Gerard Whyman I'm putting the finishing touches to a post that I'm hoping Forbidden Planet International will run, it ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Skimming, the Surface.

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My attention has been drawn to this thanks to Fantagraphics Dirk Deppey being ever vigilant and Drawn and Quarterley's Peggy Burns helpi...
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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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