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I notice that the webpage for one of the projects I have been working on is now up: What am I Doing Here? - A Beginner’s Guide to Church by Hilary Brand. It is published by Church House Publishing.
I’d tell you more, but I’ve a train to catch.
Posted by Dave at 11:04 am on April 24, 2008 and filed under Books, Religion.
This is a rather belated mention for Nicola David’s Grove booklet ‘Publicity and the Local Church‘, which uses my ‘The problem with the church‘ cartoon on its cover. I haven’t seen the book yet - I’ll take a look next time I’m in Church House Bookshop, who do, it must be said, have a very good selection of Grove booklets. Anyway, well done to Nicola, who reads this site and would comment more if it were not for the fact that my site mysteriously eats her comments.
The thing I like about Grove booklets is that they are short and to the point and cost about three pounds. It means that you can afford to investigate a subject without a huge amount of investment and getting approval from the PCC. Interestingly I note that one of the other new titles is about Online church, based on experiences gained through the St Pixels project.
On a semi-unrelated subject I was really very surprised to see at the weekend that the big Waterstones in Piccadilly still has ample copies of the Dave Walker Guide to the Church on prominent display in both the ‘Waterstones Recommends’ section and the Humour section. Quite remarkable.
Please note: I wasn’t especially looking for it - I just happened to glance my head to the left slightly when passing the shelf where it had previously been. It must be emphasised that I really do not spend my weekends travelling the country attempting to spot copies of my book in various bookshops.
[Disclosure*: Church House Bookshop is part of Hymns Ancient and Modern Limited, who pay me to do drawings.]
*I’m going to try to write one of these when I recommend something that might, directly or indirectly bring me financial benefit. I’ve read elsewhere that it’s something I should perhaps do.
Posted by Dave at 11:59 pm on January 27, 2008 and filed under Books, Religion.
Your eyes do not deceive you - this is indeed ‘The Mills and Boon Guide to the Church’.
Click ‘read the rest of this entry’ to find out more about this book.
Posted by Dave at 11:52 pm on January 17, 2008 and filed under Church, Books, Religion.
A short series featuring some of the reference books I use in my day to day work. Number one:
My wife brought this back from work as it was surplus to requirements. It had been in a cupboard for (and I quote) ‘hundreds of years’.
Posted by Dave at 11:43 pm on January 16, 2008 and filed under Church, Cartooning, Books, Religion.
Cartoonist Darren Harvey-Regan, creator of ‘Bold’s Fold‘ has a second book out called ‘Bold’s Fold - a second helping’.
Darren’s cartoons are all about the charismatic branch of Christianity. If you are, or have been, involved in that side of things I think you will enjoy this book.
Those who have been reading my website(s) since the early 2000s might remember that we featured some of Darren’s cartoons on Wibsite.com. At the time Darren was the cartoonist for ‘Christianity and Renewal’ magazine. ‘Renewal’ was later dropped. I can’t remember why exactly. Probably because, as all library-goers know you can only renew something about eight times before having to take it back and choose something else. Failure to do so will incur a charge of 20p a day.
Posted by Dave at 6:07 pm on December 18, 2007 and filed under Church, Cartooning, Ecumenical matters, Books, Religion.
[Click on the image for the full sized version which will pop up.]
This is the cartoon I did for the Church House Bookshop late night shopping event. The image is a bit off-colour as it is taken from a photograph of the original which is A1 size. The shelves on the left, by the way, say ‘charismatic worship’ at the top, and ‘prayer’ at the bottom. The shelves on the right say ‘high church’ at the top, ‘middle of the road’ in the middle and ‘low church’ at the bottom.
I may well do a version for the Church Times but if so I will redraw it. I forgot to label the ‘extreme browser’ who is clambering over the shelves. Not that I drew it in a hurry you understand. Thanks to the various people who supplied ideas, especially commenter ‘Jaded for Jesus‘ who sent me the ‘kneeling for prayer’ gag months and months ago.
On the subject of bookshops: I don’t have a lot to report on the SSG shops front. Christian Marketplace have a report here: The SSG saga goes on. Unfortunately there seems to be some problems with paragraphs dropped out of the online version - I’ll contact Clem in case it’s a technical glitch.
There are some quotes in the article with which I do not agree, as you might guess. I can’t really say more though as it is all a bit close to home.
SPCK have, since I last wrote, updated their news page with the following:
Bookshops: a statement from SPCK
SPCK would like to emphasize that they do not own, manage or otherwise run the Bookshops which transferred to SSG’s Charitable Trust in October 2006.
Saint Stephen the Great (SSG) was contacted by SPCK’s lawyers in October 2007 concerning its use of the SPCK name for what used to trade as the SPCK Bookshops group.
In October 2007, SSG put out a release clarifying that from 1 November the bookshops would be trading under the name Saint Stephen the Great.
The front page still says:
In October 2006, the SPCK Bookshops were transferred to another charity, the St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust (SSG), who run them independently of SPCK.
SSG will not in future be using the SPCK name for these shops.
The SPCK name continues to be used in the shops - signs, bags etc.
Meanwhile on the internet the spckbookshops.org site remains empty, with links back to SPCK and the St Stephen the Great Trust site, which has been ‘down for maintenance’ for a week or so. It looks like they are designing a new site.
Posted by Dave at 11:33 pm on November 29, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, Save the SPCK, Books, Religion.
This is the belated fifth and final cartoon from my Cartoon Challenge Night. I got there eventually. I changed the concept rather, but it is based on the suggestion by Mary in a limited sort of a way.
I will add this and one or two other cartoons to the downloadable area before too long so that subscribers can use them. It might be Monday though as I am behind with things and we are going out.
Talking of cartoons the Church Times is available free online for this week only owing to the postal strike that is currently happening here in the UK. This means that there is a rare opportunity for non subscribers to see my latest cartoon for this week, entitled ‘Clergy Advertisements‘. If you’d like to see the fruit of my latest blood, sweat and tears every week why not subscribe to the Church Times. It is currently £65 for Uk subscriptions and £95 in the USA.
Talking of various things, I mentioned a few weeks back that my book was temporarily out of print, but then forgot to say when it was in print again. So, to set the record straight, it is in print again. The calendar is also selling well apparently - Rhys sent me a link yesterday to Christian Marketplace, who are recommending it as a Christmas present. Who am I to argue. The book and calendar are both £5.99 and if you were to buy one you would be helping me out right royally. Thank you.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Posted by Dave at 1:11 pm on October 5, 2007 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Books, Religion.
Church House Bookshop are doing the book and calendar together for £8.99 until the 1st of October. Non-UK readers can take advantage of this offer too.
Posted by Dave at 10:27 pm on August 20, 2007 and filed under Books, Religion.
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As hinted at the other day the The Dave Walker Guide to the Church 2008 Calendar is now available.
It is published by Canterbury Press, costs £5.99 and is subtitled ‘Things to do in your church’. Each month contains a page of different drawings of events that one might (perhaps) choose to celebrate in one’s church during that month. All the material is brand new and hasn’t been published anywhere else, except for December which is a Christmas cartoon I did as a half page Church Times one that I was quite pleased with. The calendar artwork pages look a bit like the one to the right, but bigger. The calendar ‘dates’ pages have plenty of space to write things in and contain important ecclesiastical events. Each copy of the calendar comes with a strong envelope to put it in.
The calendar is available from the following places:
*I’m fairly sure about these options, but will confirm them as soon as I can. If you know of other places stocking it please let me know.
Posted by Dave at 11:00 pm on August 9, 2007 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, Books, Religion.
My copy of ‘Shaggy Blog Stories’, the UK Bloggers Comic Relief book has arrived from the Lulu publishing company. This is the first time that I have ordered a ‘print on demand’ book from the internet. For this and other reasons it is terribly exciting.
It looks like it is going to be superb. One of my entries is in it, but that is an aside really. If you enjoy humourous blogs then I’d advise buying this book as a means to discovering a lot of new ones that you don’t yet know about. Thanks again to Mike for all his hard work.
Unfortunately I have no time to dilly dally in front of the computer reading it at this moment. I have dilly dallying to do downstairs.
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Posted by Dave at 9:47 am on March 22, 2007 and filed under Books.
This is a contribution by the UK blogging community to red nose day. Mike at Troubled Diva and several assistants have worked very hard in only a few days to put a book of humourous blog posts together together and it is now available to purchase from Lulu at the following link:
http://www.lulu.com/content/739873 (or www.shaggyblogstories.co.uk should take you there).
The book contains comedic blog posts from some of the best and funniest blogs in the UK, including:
…and a heck of a lot I have not heard of. Oh, and one of my posts, though I did choose it literally one minute before the Tuesday 6pm deadline, so it might not be my best piece of work ever. A full list of the bloggers included and other sundry information is here on Mike’s site.
All money raised by sales of the book is being donated to Comic Relief. The cover price is £8.96, of which £3.63 will go to Comic Relief once external manufacturing costs have been deducted.
Please note that the book may contain strong language and/or content unsuitable for all ages etc etc.
Posted by Dave at 12:14 am on March 16, 2007 and filed under Blogging, Make Poverty History, Books.
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I am currently working on my calendar for 2008.
Those who know me will be perplexed by this, as usually I begin work on the calendar on around the 31st of December, or perhaps the 24th of December if I am giving copies as Christmas presents. However, I am pleased to be able to tell you that my calendar for 2008 is going to be published by Canterbury Press, the people who published my book and is going to be done properly unlike my usual ones. It will have entirely new drawings - none of it will have appeared on the internet and over 90% of it will not have appeared anywhere ever.
There is a small taster here on the Canterbury Press website.
The scheduled publication date is the 31st of May 2007 which Is around the same time as the Christian Resources Exhibition.
Posted by Dave at 10:15 am on March 12, 2007 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, Books.
