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One of my clients over the last month or two has been After Sunday, an organisation that helps people to explore their vocations.
A couple of my cartoons are now on their website - After Sunday have the exclusive first web rights to these drawings so they don’t currently appear anywhere else. You’ll find my work on these two pages:
Posted by Dave at 9:24 pm on May 11, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Cartooning, Spirituality, Religion.
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I’ve been drawing a few cartoons for the Church Times blog. Today’s is ‘The Church is empty’ for my post Is the church in decline?. At the weekend I did one called ‘Episcopal oversight’ for a post entitled An unwarranted invasion?
The best way to get all of my Church Times blog cartoons is to subscribe to the feed. If that makes no sense please ask and I’ll answer questions about how it works.
Posted by Dave at 2:22 pm on May 8, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Religion, Church Times blog.
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If you can stand to read my self-centred ramblings there is an interview with me on the Wesley Owen website. You can find it by clicking links on this page (Click cartoon, then link that says ‘Click here for Dave Walker interview’) or you can go to it directly here but without the rest of the page (I’d link directly but there are frames). A cartoon of mine is appearing there on a monthly basis.
Posted by Dave at 12:34 pm on May 6, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Religion.
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The Anglican Journal is the independent national Newspaper of the Anglican Church of Canada.
From the latest issue: Cartoonist’s role at meeting of bishops a bit sketchy.
Posted by Dave at 2:24 pm on May 4, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Anglican goings-on, Religion, Lambeth 08.
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I’ve posted a cartoon about Bishop Gene Robinson’s non-invitation to the Lambeth Conference on the Church Times blog. Also a brief observation on the fact that Wesley Owen are to be the official bookshop of the conference.
Don’t worry - I’m not going to write something here every time I make a Church Times post. But I might sometimes say something here when I’ve drawn a new cartoon, especially during these first few weeks whilst there are people wandering aimlessly up and down the corridors trying to work out where my cartoons are and which room they are supposed to be after the coffee break.
Posted by Dave at 11:54 am on March 11, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Blogging, Anglican goings-on, Religion.
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Posted by Dave at 11:28 pm on March 10, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Cartooning, Religion.
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It has been a busy week, so apologies for a lack of action on this site. I’ve been doing some new cartoons on the Church Times blog which was announced in the paper today. For example:
So as not to exhaust myself I’m using some old material too, see for example the cartoon which seemed to fit with Maggi Dawn’s Archbishop interview, which I’ve linked to here.
Have a good weekend everyone. I’ll be chained to my blank sheets of A4 paper I’m afraid. I think now though I’m going to go for a quick ride on my mountain bike before it gets dark.
Posted by Dave at 5:46 pm on March 7, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Religion.
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I’d like to give a quick mention to Paul, whose children’s comic book ‘Exile Road’ is being used by the Spring Harvest Christian holidays this year. Paul writes a ‘Wiblog’ on my other site (the one that was broken but is now less broken than it was). You can read information and discussion about it on the Spring Harvest Christian holidays site.
Just as an insignificant aside, is anyone who reads this weblog going to the Minehead Week 1 Spring Harvest Christian holiday from the 5th to the 10th of April this year? I have no particular reason for asking - it is just idle chatter.
Posted by Dave at 6:53 pm on February 27, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Art, Ecumenical matters, Religion.
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Ben Edson has been causing the evolution of a worshipper cartoon to evolve. The interpretation will follow in a few days.
Perhaps other people would like to undertake the creation of their own evolution. I have uploaded the high resolution original of the 2008 version of the cartoon (with Emergent Guy) for you to download and photoshop. Or of course you can use the original original. Let me know if you do something with it.
The 2008 version of the cartoon originally appeared in Christianity Today - see my previous post.
Please note that you still need to get in touch as per usual if you want to publish it in a magazine or somewhere. Thank you!
Posted by Dave at 10:35 pm on February 24, 2008 and filed under Church, Cartooning, Spirituality, Religion.
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A few weeks ago you kindly helped me with ideas for an ‘excuses for absenteeism’ cartoon. Well, here is the cartoon. It appeared in the Church Times on the 11th of January. Thanks again for all your help.
Sorry to not bring you more today. I have a heavy cold and am trying to do my paperwork. I really must not look at the computer again until this evening.
I was distracted this morning by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent speech about Religious Offence and who should be allowed to cause it. I haven’t decided what I think yet. He says some good things, but I’m not sure I agree with all his conclusions. All I can say is that it needs more thought than has been given by some prominent bloggers, who don’t bother to look up the original speech and just hurl abuse. This seems to be a more well thought out critique. I’d be interested to read comments by those who agree with the Archbishop.
Posted by Dave at 11:41 am on January 30, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Current events, Religion.
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The UCCF are encouraging Christian students to help illustrate the gospel of Mark using doodles. The scheme is called ‘oodles of doodles’ and is explained here. 400 000 copies of the doodled-upon gospels will then be given out to students this September.
An example of a good evangelistic doodle is shown above. One assumes that the three lightening bolts represent the wrath of God, the heart represents the human condition, and the five stars represent astrology. I don’t know about the seaweed - I haven’t worked that out yet.
The doodles must not use words or letters as explained in the downloadable instructions, reproduced below. It would appear that numbers are OK. Punctuation is a grey area, and therefore discouraged. Non-literal gospel drawings are encouraged, but not outside the box.
I for one am in favour of encouraging people to doodle so I think this scheme has my hearty backing. It is my opinion that pens and paper should be given out on the way into all church services. If everyone did more drawing the problems in this world would be cut by about 10-12%.
Monks have been illustrating gospels since early times. This is also relevant, but I forget why.
Background information: The UCCF is a conservative evangelical university Christian Unions organisation. See here to see the posts I’ve written about them in the past.
Posted by Dave at 5:28 pm on January 25, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Art, Ecumenical matters, Religion.
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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.
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The not- quite- daily internet column of Dave Walker. Dave writes and draws for the Church Times and is to be the 'Cartoonist in Residence' for the 2008 Lambeth Conference. (
