Rod McKie

McKie made it clear from the start that he wanted the character, initially an ongoing serial rather than a self-contained weekly story, to look like "key" scenes from an animation storyboard rather than a conventional comic page.

[citation needed] The character and the backgrounds were drawn flat, with a rigid, inflexible nib, in order that the eye of the reader should not be distracted by thick and thin lines.

[citation needed] His work appeared in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Reader's Digest (USA), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Prospect (UK), The Phoenix, and a range of other titles.

[3] McKie was portrayed, as himself, in Albion #3 (WildStorm, Dec. 2005), the six-issue limited series that aimed to revive classic IPC-owned British comics characters, all of whom appeared in comics published by Odhams Press and later IPC Media during the 1960s and early 1970s, such as Smash!, Valiant, and Lion.

He attempted to salvage pages by Pete Dredge, Stanley McMurtry, and Leo Baxendale, but was prevented from doing so because he didn't have permission.