Rod McKie Illustrations and Cartoons

Again, apologies for being away for so long, and for the lack of cartoon and comic book related posts.  I will get round to it.  Meanwhile, a lot has happened, a few friends have died, includin...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2019/11/again-apologies-for-being-away-for-so.html

I'm currently banned from Twitter for calling Bernard Jenkin MP a cnut.  I'm perplexed by this because I don't see any way Twitter can prove he isn't. He's a Brexit supporting twat from the ERG...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2019/05/bernard-cnut-jenkin-mp.html

I do feel like that every so often, like I'm staggering out of a fog into a slowly brightening day. I'm sure it will be a familiar feeling to some of you.  What's helped this time is understandi...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2019/03/staggering-out-of-fog.html

Older, but no wiser. I'm drawing some cartoons again.  The really odd thing is, I've been developing a style as if I was new to the game, rather than an old fart.  I think it may be beca...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2017/12/still-with-us.html

I did intend to make a post about a particular manga, and I will post that soon, it's coming along nicely, but this post is about music and textual analysis. Let's do this in chronological ord...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2016/11/creating-writer.html

HAPPINESS, as is often the case with manga aimed primarily at teens, causes me one or two age and dad-related problems that I've touched on before, but it is, in the main, despite not being ...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2016/09/happiness-as-is-often-case-with-manga.html

 I forgot my password. I'm forgetting a few things, which I hope is temporary. If not, Well, what can you do? This is a taster of some of the posts I'll be putting up. I had planned to do th...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2016/09/well-you-took-your-time.html

I had many plans to update the blog this past year, 2015, but things conspired to get in the way. This month, it has been my cancer, which now makes me very tired I'm afraid. With luck, I shall m...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2015/12/appropriately-best-laid-plans-of-mice.html

  You'll have spotted several things instantly from the cover of LHC: it's a seinan manga title, it's a little diabolical looking, the logo looks vaguely like a ninja-weapon, a shade total...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2015/09/litchi-hikari-club.html

There's a place, somewhere in between being fully awake, and being asleep and dreaming, where the creative mind roams in search of ideas. It's an inner-space, like a vast landscape in some comput...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2014/10/kate-bush-somewhere-in-between.html

Ha. Well it has been a long time in the making.  As my regular reader will know, I began my side project, 'Johnny Morte', as a mini-comic some time back, and it kept developing as I added new th...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-saga-continues.html

The fact that I've finally made the cover to issue #1 of Johnny Morte means that I've finished the first comic book.  I may make some changes, but it's largely done and those changes won't be hu...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/11/yay-progress.html

I'm going with black gutters in parts of Johnny Morte.  Issue #1 of the comic begins with a dream sequence, then a night sequence and then a flashback sequence, so I'm going with black gutters u...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/09/last-teeny-update-before-resuming.html

Well, I'm not sure about this one.  I'll know better tomorrow, when I look at it in a more detached way.  It will do for now, I suppose.  It is kind of comic bookish, which I like:

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/09/johnny-morte-cover-1.html

Anyone who has read the posts on Johnny Morte, from his beginnings as a mini-comic, will hardly find the inclusion of the Charon/Grim Reaper character a surprise, but I didn't want anyone unfamil...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/09/page-1-of-johnny-morte.html

Still waiting to update, but I'm going to post this and delete the previous post, because the drawings are more up-to-date and there are more of them.  Again, I'm holding page 1 back for the tim...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/09/hello-future-rod-its-me-again.html

I'll be posting a long-winded blog on the fabulously gory and utterly fantastic manga 'Shingeki No Kyojin' (Attack on Titan), by 27 year-old mangaka Hajime Isayama.  Attack on Titan has ...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/03/coming-soon.html

...tiddely pom.  To quote someone else with very little brain.  I've drawn 26 pages of my comic book, A3-size, and inked them, despite the fact that I don't need to do that because I'll be ...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2013/01/and-so-it-goes.html

So I began working on Johnny Morte maybe two years ago?  It has taken this long to get it just the way I want it, and the story has evolved over the period and the look of it has changed.  Visu...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-moebius-loop.html

American author, HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT'S (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) stories and his literary philosophy of "cosmicism"  , the belief that life is incomprehensible to human minds...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-very-happy-lovecraftian-halloween.html

I was obsessed with comicbooks when I was a schoolboy, American comicbooks.  During some lessons I sat daydreaming, especially when the lesson involved the teacher talking about her time in Dar ...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2012/05/wonderful-copenhagen-allan-haverholms.html

I like Eric Orchard. I like Eric's work too, he has a lightness of touch, and can invoke a genuine sense of creepiness that is almost in the same league as the feeling of Unheimliche that Re...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2012/04/picking-over-eric-orchards-marrowbones.html

Hi.  I hope this means I'll shortly be back at the, ahem, grind.  I still have to be scanned in a giant cigar-tube and have more blood tests, but I'm hoping it will be the last round of that st...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2012/03/imagine-noise-like-blerp.html

May be a repeat of the 2009 stuff. Yucky, but back soon.

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2011/12/sorry-been-ill.html

So I'll be posting some drawings soon. I'm writing a story about a DJ in Edinburgh, in the 1970s, which has some actual people in it and some fictional ones, and lots of real places- and its skel...

http://rodmckie.blogspot.com/2011/09/of-death-and-music.html