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I’m on the lookout for new opportunities and possibilities. Not necessarily involving cartooning. Must involve me making a living somehow.
(This is not me saying that I plan to give up doing all of the things I currently do, but it isn’t me saying I intend to keep on doing them either.)
Any thoughts or ideas? Please get in touch via dave at cartoonchurch.com – thank you.
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Just wondering if you have a future as a Social Media Guru?
Because lots of stuff I’ve been reading recently about SM seems to show that we are taking ourselves quite seriously. (Bit like the CofE sometimes).
So, something funny and appropriate whether cartoon or just blogging to knock the stuffiness out of SM would be a good idea.
And, I thought you tried public speaking recently, and if Tony Blair can command multi-millions with the rubbish he spouts, I’m sure that you could make a sensible living – charging a few thousand for engagements, just talking about anything that takes your fancy.
The research tools are available right here. Google it, talk about it!
I’m also wondering if you have some future in the media/comms kind of role? Lots of churches and dioceses wanting someone who actually knows about that kind of thing, I would have thought. I suppose you would want to stay where you are geographically or is it all up for consideration?
An obvious route for a someone with such precise artistic skills would be forging money. Your drawings are such that often I can’t tell if they are really photos. Can you please draw some notes of different denominations and we’ll decide how rich you could become. And please include printing instructions just in case we want to, you know…
Why not try your hand at drawing cartoons?
Do stuff about other parts of life, as you occasionally do, and try and sell them to other places.
Also, squeeze some pennies out of your readers – use something like http://www.kachingle.com/ and people can support you really easily.
I agree with the other comment about you doing more speaking (just after you’ve said you might not do any more) just work out the kinks with OpenOffice (or try LibreOffice or Prezi.com).
Do some small cartoons more suited to inclusion in a church publication, then people might pay to use them.
How about sub-letting part of your expansive office space?
Urm… no, that’s it, I’m out of ideas at the moment.
Get churches to commission bespoke cartoons for their websites (serious offer from me here as I am about to re-do our site).
Also your cartoons are so good – and your deadpan writing style so funny – that there MUST be a market outside of the church. I see no reason why you can’t do a http://www.stevenappleby.com/ and get into the broadsheets – just need a way in. If they knew about you, they’d love you! Either for cartoons or a written column.
How about making more of your site and accepting advertising on it? You can say what kind of ads you wouldn’t be willing to accept.
Failing all that, stand around on street corners, swinging your pearls…
I am just worried that this is some sort of mid-life crisis.
Speaking as one who has been through many, don’t worry, it will all be over, sooner than you think and you can settle back down to doing what you have always done and been very good at, and many of us really enjoy.
Pastorally yours
Sue
This ‘making a living somehow’ business is a wretched nuisance. You have my sympathy. Is there no drawing stipend for you within the CoE? If not, could you not offer your services to the Royals? ‘Doodler by Royal Appointment’ has a certain ring about it. And you could keep them amused with your drawings at all sorts of otherwise dry regal events (can’t be so very different from General Synod ). I can imagine Charles sniggering at your notepad of Goonish offerings. And perhaps adding a few scribbles of his own. All the best.
As someone who’s made more than one career turn of ninety degrees or more, you have both my sympathy and my support. And my earnest prayer that whatever the angle, there’ll be a way for at least some of what you’ve been doing, in all its gloriously serious silliness, to continue (only rather more lucratively).
funnily enough dave, i’m finding myself in a similar place right now 
hope you find some way through the whole making-a-living thing… [and if you do, let me know what it is! i'll do the same for you if i can work it out...]
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Just to say thanks for all of these comments and those made via other means. It is my intention to reply to each individually, but I’ll see how I do. Thanks again. Dave
Building on the idea of cartoons about other things, amusing books are very popular as pressies for relatives and friends. You could include cartoons, photos and comments as you wish. Subjects which might sell well are your local area, pets, campervan-ing, gender, housework, any other hobbies you have …
You could also copy Terry Wogan and publish books including people’s letters to you – in your case comments on your blog/facebook.
