Rod McKie started the craze of embroidering cartoons onto hearth rugs. He then took up miniature portraiture, stopping, heartbroken, at puberty because he breached the maximum height requirement.
This led to a decade of contemplative thought in an Ashram in Anstruther. His reemergence rocked the cartoon world when he returned as the first cartoonist to yodel his cartoons on radio.
Since then he has always drawn something or other. His work is all over the place, and you can even see it. He paints ceramic web pages thesedays and communicates only in a rare Cornish dialect that he made up himself.
Rod McKie Biography
Cartoons and illustrations, in line and in
color, by Rod McKie have been published for more than 20 years in a variety
of
publications including Punch, Accountancy, Penthouse, Mayfair, Club, and all
the
UK's national press. He has worked as a writer/artist on IPC Magazines
Buster
comic, and continues to do some work in the UK for Prospect Magazine, and
other
titles. He now work mainly in the USA for a number of clients, including The
Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Readers Digest.