Tag Archive | "Rod McKie"

“The Clash of British publishing”

Thursday, January 13, 2011

1 Comment

The always interesting Rod McKie pulled himself away from his massive Green and Black’s chocolate hamper over the recent holidays to pen a great post on Blank Slate Books and the state of comics publishing in the UK. As with many of us he had worried in the past that we were continually producing some [...]

Continue reading...

Best of the Year: Rod McKie

Friday, December 10, 2010

1 Comment

Rod McKie is a professional artist who has contributed work to a wide variety of periodicals, including Playboy, the Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, National Lampoon and more, as well as working on his own comics and indeed often writing on the medium (including some fascinating posts right here on the FP blog). His blog [...]

Continue reading...

The general election in comics

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

1 Comment

Confused by the live debates where party leaders switched from ‘I agree with…’ to ‘get real’ depending on opinion polls, policies which are never fully explained and indeed the actual outcome of the election viz a viz who will actually be the next government (currently they are trying to decide via the medium of musical [...]

Continue reading...

Rod on Dudley Watkins

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Comments Off

“For we cartoonists’ who are not naturally gifted and have to work hard at our craft, there is some solace in looking at Dudley’s very early work before the Broons and Oor Wullie. That’s because if you began with no knowledge of his earlier work, and you just picked up a Broons or an Oor [...]

Continue reading...

Don’t get married to an idea

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Comments Off

Rod McKie ponders the investment in time and emotion (and possible financial repercussions) of the cartoonist creating something they like themselves but which doesn’t work for publishers or readers and how a canny cartoonist can sometimes rework it to suit when its a single cartoon but how much more difficult it is if they have [...]

Continue reading...