I have just posted two pieces of free fiction to the stories section for your reading pleasure. Both are previously unpublished.

The Memory of Water is a 3000 word story that seems to defy genre classification.

Last Words is a much shorter Flash Fiction story that is also quite dark - most definitely horror.

I hope you enjoy them both.

Black Roads, Dark Highways was my regular article and comic strip in the unfortunately short-lived magazine "Black: Australian Dark Culture". The idea was, that I would write an article and accompanying comic strip for each issue focusing on the various myths, legends (ancient and urban) and conspiracy theories associated specifically with Australian culture.

It is sad that Black's initial run only lasted 3 issues (and my own column only the last 2 issues) but it was a great magazine and the articles were fun to write and draw.

I tried to be dark as well as whimsical; gross as well as humorous - or at least I thought they were humorous in my own twisted way. Judging from the comments I received from readers, I think I succeeded pretty well.

But, Black is gone for now (although it might one day resurrect itself) and I thought I'd post the articles and comic strips here on the site for others to read (and hopefully enjoy),

You can find them both at the following links:

• Snake Tales and Outback Hooplah
• Killer Outback, Outback Killers

I hope you enjoy them!

A few images have now been added to the Gallery in the following albums:

• Illustrations - Black & White
• Illustrations - Colour
• Book Covers
• Comics

Welcome to the official website of author/illustrator Andrew J McKiernan.

The site is a bit empty of content at the moment, but things will fill up over the next couple of days. Very soon the image Gallery, Stories and Articles pages will be added to quite extensively.

Until then, please bear with my while I get things up and running and sort out the various bugs and other issues with the new code.

Thanks for your patience.