Angus McKie

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.

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. This influence may be seen in the look of the Homeworld video game.