At long last I am ready to make an announcement that has been waiting in my ‘pending announcements’ box (usually a very empty box it must be said) for some months. I am now blogging on a new blog, the Church Times blog, of which this is a sample screen shot:

The new blog will be about the same sorts of subjects that you’ll find in the Church Times newspaper - religious news with an emphasis on Anglican goings-on. There will be plenty of cartoons, both new ones and some unearthed from my filing ’system’. The aim is to bring some more variety to the Church Times site and hopefully reach a wider audience.

I know that the starting of a new blog will raise some questions, so I will attempt to preempt them. First of all, this Cartoon blog and the CartoonChurch website will continue as will my cartoons in the Church Times newspaper.

So, how will the ‘two blog’ scenario will work? Well, the Church Times blog will contain:

• My blog posts on religious topics
• My cartoons on religious topics

This blog will contain everything else. In other words:

• CartoonChurch.com cartoons and updates
• My cartoons on non-religious topics, including ‘We blog cartoons’ updates
• Blog posts about things like my books, talks, personal and inconsequential matters, things I’ve seen out of the window etc
• Posts about the former SPCK bookshops situation

Whilst the Cartoon blog will continue I will no longer advertise it as my daily internet column. CartoonChurch.com will contine and I will keep on adding new cartoons to the ‘content’ pages.

The Church Times blog site is new and it has only been live since Friday. I didn’t mention it here at the weekend as I’ve been away and wanted to be able to moderate any comments that might be posted and respond to any questions that might be asked. Please excuse any technical glitches that we haven’t yet ironed out.

You may well be wondering how I will find the time to post on yet another website. Well, I will be posting a bit less here, but I’m also going to be cutting down the amount of freelance work that I do as that is the part of my work I sometimes struggle with. Although I still have a lot to do in the next couple of weeks after that time I am going to (politely) say ‘no’ to a lot of projects for the sake of my sanity. I’m also hoping to find some people to be a bit more involved in the running of the Wibsite, the community website that I supposedly run but have, to my shame, rather neglected recently. Chris has had to do more than he should, which hasn’t been right.

I hope you’ll enjoy the new blog - I for one am very excited to be doing it. I’m also looking forward to working more with the people from the Church Times - the plan is for me to go into their offices in the City of London for one day a week as well as doing cartooning and blogging at home as I usually do.

There is a feed that you can subscribe to if you enjoy what I do. You can read the blog through a site like Bloglines, Google reader, My Yahoo etc, or you can get it delivered by e-mail as I know some people do with this site. The feed page should have the full information about that sort of thing.

Hope to see you there - and here.

Posted by Dave at 6:35 pm on March 3, 2008 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, Blogging, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, 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:

• Direct from SCM-Canterbury Press
• From the Church House Bookshop - the actual shop or online. They are doing a special offer - book and calendar for £8.99 until 1st October
• From the Church Times tent at Greenbelt*
• SPCK (Currently unavailable from SPCK)
• Through Anglicanshop.com (Already in their ‘Top 10′ apparently)
• If you quote the ISBN number 978-1-85311-815-9 I think you should be able to order it through other bookshops*

*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.

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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.

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This post is here for highly secret and yet deeply uninteresting testing purposes only and should be ignored.

I am not going to stop you commenting, but I must warn you that you will not find inner fulfilment by commenting on this post.

Equally I have never been one to discourage linking to this blog, but I must warn you that this post really does not merit a link and any readers clicking the link and arriving at this post will undoubtedly be disappointed.

Indeed, even by reading this post you are using valuable time which you could far more more usefully have spent elsewhere.

Move along now. Nothing to see.

Testing. One Two. One two one.

That should do it.

Update: There are no interesting developments to report on this topic.

Posted by Dave at 1:38 pm on May 22, 2006 and filed under Mundane, CartoonChurch.com newsletter.

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