Angus McKie

Angus McKie
BornJuly 1951 (age 73)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
NationalityBritish
Area(s)Cartoonist, Artist, Inker, Letterer, Colourist
Notable works
So Beautiful and So Dangerous
The Dome: Ground Zero
AwardsEisner Award for Best Coloring, 1995

Angus McKie (born July 1951 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British comics creator who has worked as an artist, inker, writer and colourist. McKie was an early employer of computer-generated artwork. He has worked frequently with fellow British creators Dave Gibbons and Bryan Talbot.

He is best known as a science fiction illustrator whose work appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction paperback novels in the mid-1970s and 1980s, as well as in Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority series of illustrated books. McKie's illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions, examples of which include So Beautiful and So Dangerous (1979) and The Dome: Ground Zero (1998), as well as the cover for the 1978 Vangelis album Hypothesis.[a]

Like Peter Elson, Tony Roberts, Chris Foss, and some other artists of the period, he influenced an entire generation of science fiction illustrators and concept artists.[citation needed] This influence may be seen in the look of the Homeworld video game.[citation needed]
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