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June 21st, 2007

Cartooning: various things from the internet

Here are some cartooning links:

1. First of all, The Dilbert Blog: How to Make a Comic Strip. I’m a great fan of Scott Adams’ work. As well as his cartoons he writes a splendid blog, which is one of the things I read on a ‘daily basis’ basis. This entry shows what he does each day in pictures.

2. Procartoonists.org is a new organisation for professional cartoonists in the UK. It describes itself thus:

The PCO’s membership spans the best, most experienced and most published full-time, professional cartoonists and caricaturists in the UK.

I am not a member as I am a bit second rate, not that experienced, not that published, a bit of a part-timer and not that professional. I am in the UK though, so I have made a start on the long and rocky road to membership.

3. If you find cartooning a bit difficult you could always try doing this with your pencils.

4. Article about cartoons and religion.

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Anyway, how is everyone? I’ve spent the day working on the church website. It isn’t what I should have been doing, but I’ve got so far behind with it that I just had to concentrate on it and get it done. I’ll post the link another time so that you can see what it is like, but I must not do so before the Vicar has looked at it in case I have written libellous information on it.

Tomorrow I’m going to do some in depth perusing of your cartoon ideas followed by some drawings. The stuff you’ve written really is most splendid, so thanks again.

Later in the afternoon the cats and I might play ‘bird’, one of our favourite games. We’ll have to see how things go though. If we haven’t done two decent cartoons between the three of us there’ll be no game of ‘bird’, that’s for sure.

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  1. Peter Kirk says:

    Scott Adams has and recommends one cat, and you have two? Don’t try too hard to outdo him!

    June 22nd, 2007 at 12:29 am
  2. David says:

    Hey Dave, you shouldn’t do yourself under. You are ‘professional’ because it is your full-time job. You have published a book (and a calender shortly) and you cartoons are syndicated in a weekly national publication.
    Sounds pretty good to me.

    Also it takes Scott Adams 47 seconds to walk to work, I’m guessing it takes you a lot less.

    June 22nd, 2007 at 7:42 am
  3. Dave says:

    Peter – ours came as a two pack. I don’t think I’m trying to be like Scott Adams too much – I don’t understand the Diet Coke thing for a start, though I do quite like the idea of a special fridge in the office.

    David – thank you. I am of course larking around to a certain extent. Sometimes though when I read about the way that other cartoonists organise themselves I realise that life at Dave Walker HQ is a bit of a shambles.

    June 22nd, 2007 at 8:02 am
  4. ruth says:

    Dave

    You are not “a bit second rate” at all. You are very, very funny. And I mean that. If I thought otherwise, I just wouldn’t have commented here.

    We get to see lots of your work on this blog and of course some posts are funnier than others (the same can be said for the work of any comedian from Chaplin to Gervais and they don’t ‘publish on a daily basis’; I recently read a biography of Stan Laurel which included some un-used scripts and some, but not all, of his scripts had me laughing out loud) – and I think that we see touches of comic genius amongst what you show us, I really do.

    June 22nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
  5. Chris Clark says:

    I think you shouldn’t join Dave…you’d lose that cutting, on the edge, crazy, off the wall thing I’m sure. Don’t join the Mainstream we love you just the way you are.

    Best of luck to Mattie and Evie with their cartoons…let us know who has done which one when they are out..

    June 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
  6. jody says:

    just went to dilbert blog – 295 comments…295!

    June 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm