I’m pleased to be able to announce that a new cartoon series, ‘The Dave Walker Guide to Youth Work’ will be appearing every month in Youthwork Magazine, starting with the January issue, available in December. I’m very excited about this, not last because it is only the second publication that my work is appearing in on a regular ‘every single issue’ kind of basis.

People who notice these sorts of things might notice that I’ve recently done a few cartoons for Youthwork the Conference and also some (about this time last year) for the National Charter for Youthworkers (example above). The series will be a bit like my ‘Guide to the Church’ ones, except about youth work, hence the name.

With this in mind I am desperately in need of cartoon ideas. I will therefore being going to Youthwork the Conference in the fair town of Eastbourne the weekend after next, (I’ll be there Saturday 21st / Sunday 22nd November), to loiter and hopefully talk to some youth workers to find out what they do these days. If you are going to the conference I will buy you a coffee or a small fruit juice if you will talk to me about such things. And indeed, it would be great to meet anyone else who is there, cartoon ideas or not. If you’re going do get in touch.

Just for information: I’m not stopping any of the things I currently do (except possibly being grumpy at cats who get in my way around the house and drivers who don’t indicate).

Posted by Dave at 4:27 pm on November 12, 2009 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, Cartooning, Cartoons.

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I’ve done some cartoons for Youthwork the Conference in order to attract people to their event which is coming up in November. Here is a sample which makes no sense out of context – the links to the full cartoons are below.

1. Things that you can do at Youthwork the Conference

2. How to go to Youthwork the Conference

If you know anyone who does youthwork then you could tell them about this conference. It is in Eastbourne which is quite idyllic in its own way.

Posted by Dave at 6:57 pm on October 6, 2009 and filed under Cartoons.

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A post outlining my hopes for this blog, going forward.

I have encountered some difficulties recently, so it has been quite quiet here. I’m sorry about that. I hope to do rather more posting here though as I do rather enjoy writing this blog. I also plan to put up a whole load of new downloadable cartoon material on the site for subscribers as there hasn’t been any for a while. I might also scan some diagrams from the ‘to scan’ pile.

Thanks for your patience anyway. Feel free to repost this cartoon elsewhere.

Posted by Dave at 12:06 pm on September 25, 2009 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, Cartoons.

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Top Episcopalian blogger Scott Gunn has noticed that I have not been drawing here much and has declared himself to be in a state of impaired blogmunion with me (See Denouncing Dave Walker), so I thought I’d post a cartoon. It is one I did months ago that has been sitting in a sizable ‘to scan’ pile by the way – it wasn’t inspired by Scott’s post. Please forgive the Shrigley-esque crossing out. Usually everything I do is heavily edited so that you can’t see all of the mistakes, but on this occasion I thought my misspelling of ‘genius’ added something.

Scott is absolutely right though – I’ve not been doing enough cartoons on this blog. There are various reasons for this, but I can’t really explain as these days I can’t really write what I’m actually thinking on the internet as it would probably make me look deeply unprofessional, and no-one wants that.

Anyway, summer is coming, which means that I have to get ahead of myself a bit on the cartoon front. Does anyone have any topics they’d like me to cover in my ‘Guide to the Church’ series over the next month or two? No promises that I’ll actually be able to do them, but I’ll try my best to draw some of the topics suggested.

Posted by Dave at 10:28 am on July 18, 2009 and filed under Blogging, Cartoons.

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Hello. As you can see I forgot to blog here during April.

Here is why (warning: pretty dull). I have been:

• Blogging from the G20
• Blogging from Spring Harvest (You can find both of these via Church Times blog: April)
• Finishing my 2010 calendar . This nearly killed me, as it always does.
• Posting on Twitter, even though I said I never would (See Things that I am not going to get involved with on the internet, blog post from 2006). It is easy and ideal for the lazy and self-promotionalists, although less fulfilling than blogging.
• Taking a couple of days break
• Sitting in my office for days on end (I’m not exaggerating) trying to think up ideas
• Undertaking other work projects that I will class as ‘miscellaneous’
• Writing little things down in little notebooks
• Laundry
• Tending to animals

The two cartoons represent the best of my month’s work. Anything else I’ve done will be worse than these. (Although I am secretly quite pleased with these two, and my Church Times cartoon today was OK too.)

My new month’s resolution for May is to be slightly more interesting and post more nonsense on this blog. Also I have a new world-changing project to launch, perhaps.

Posted by Dave at 2:22 pm on May 1, 2009 and filed under Cartoons, Sundry posts.

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I’m a bit overwhelmed by things at the moment, and realise that I am rather behind on e-mail replies, telephone calls, invoices, things I’ve promised people and whatnot. I’ll try to do some catching up in the next day or so. In the meantime, apologies.

Posted by Dave at 10:41 am on March 24, 2009 and filed under Cartoons.

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I’ve just added five new cartoons to the main CartoonChurch site. They are free to look at, or if you’d like to publish them in church literature and other such places, licences are available.

I have added some of these to the Facebook page too and will be adding the last couple in the next day or two. I don’t want to overwhelm Facebook users with too much excitement all at once.

The new cartoons are as follows:

1. Church architecture How congregation members resemble it
2. Fixtures and fittings that you may have observed during the services
3. The Laity How to recognise them
4. The organ recital We have good news to share
5. After-service coffee This is the time when newcomers can get to know the congregation

Posted by Dave at 1:25 pm on March 17, 2009 and filed under Cartoons, Church, New CartoonChurch cartoons.

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I’ve been having some good ‘Anglican goings-on’ times at General Synod in London over the last couple of days. I’ve been blogging and posting a few cartoons on my Church Times blog and Twittering every now and then. Hopefully a couple more cartoons will follow tomorrow.

Do say hello if you’re there and see me around. I can be contacted via the usual mobile number or CartoonChurch number, 07806 334077.

Posted by Dave at 11:12 pm on February 11, 2009 and filed under Anglican goings-on, Cartooning, Cartoons.

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The set of cartoons about church youthwork that I was wittering on about a month or two back are now online. Go to the schoolswork.co.uk site and in particular National Charter for Youthworkers. Here’s the blurb from the site:

“We love our youthworker!” will be officially launched next spring, but here’s a sneak preview of the aims of the charter and the set of seven sections with the cartoons to accompany them.

This is a campaign to encourage churches to think about the way they employ a full time worker and is based on a set of seven promises that churches commit to follow.

We believe that keeping full time workers positive, productive and living balanced lives makes for great youthwork. That’s an important step towards building God’s kingdom among young people.

Churches who sign up to the Charter gain a set of benefits and can expect to attract the very best youth workers in the UK. And, of course, it can also help them think about the best way to support volunteer youth workers.

The charter is a joint project between Youthwork the Partnership and Amaze.

Keep reading to see the set of seven cartoons by the ever brilliant Dave Walker from Cartoon Blog, and a description of each of the seven promises.

Posted by Dave at 10:26 pm on January 12, 2009 and filed under Cartoons.

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Just a sneak preview of part of a cartoon from a project I finished a week or two ago. I’ve done a set of youthwork-themed cartoons to go on a set of seven postcards which are part of a campaign to encourage churches to think about the way they employ youthworkers.

The ‘We love our youthworker’ campaign isn’t launched until next year, but I think the postcards were available at the recent Youthwork conference in Blackpool and Eastbourne, so some youthworkers will have seen them. This info has been posted on the Schoolswork site, which is why I’m posting about it.

Early in 2009, Youthwork the Partnership and Amaze will be launching a brand new project called ‘we love our youthworker’. simply brilliant! It’s a campaign to encourage churches to think about the way they employ a full-time worker. It’s based on a set of seven promises that churches commit to follow:

1. we will pray and support
2. we will give space for retreat and reflection
3. we will provide ongoing training and development
4. we will give a full day of rest each week
5. we will share responsibility
6. we will strive to be an excellent employer
7. we will celebrate and appreciate

Each of the promises has a little card with a purpose drawn cartoon from Dave Walker of Cartoon Church. Very funny. The reason for the project comes from the belief that keeping full time workers positive, productive and living balanced lives makes for great youthwork. And that’s an important step towards building God’s kingdom among young people. more details will follow shortly…for now, do get in touch if you’d like more info or a set of the postcards.

No doubt the full set of cartoons will appear online somewhere at some point.

Posted by Dave at 1:49 pm on November 28, 2008 and filed under Cartooning, Cartoons, Church.

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I have uploaded this cartoon to the CartoonChurch.com cartoons section so that it can be used by people needing Christmas cartoons for things. I realise I’m probably too late for most parish magazine editors – I’m really sorry. Licence info can be found by clicking the links above.

This cartoon was my Church Times Christmas one from last year. It is taken from the book My Pew: Things I have seen from it.

Posted by Dave at 1:24 pm on November 28, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, New CartoonChurch cartoons.

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Hello.

As you may or may not have noticed this blog has been silent for around 44 days. Giving an account of the causes would risk a drift into the realms of the tiresome, but in summary I’ve been a bit under the weather for one reason or another. I have been keeping my paid commitments going, but some other things have been allowed to drift somewhat.

Thank you for a number of kind messages expressing good sentiments of various sorts.

Anyway, I fully intend to start this blog going again. I’m not putting any pressure on myself to do it daily, but hopefully there will be new things a number of times a week. This blog may well go back to being the place where I post any old nonsense, which in the past has tended to produce the best results.

(New cartoon from my We Blog Cartoons site, where you’ll find some of my cartoons that can be freely re-used on blogs.)

Posted by Dave at 7:54 pm on November 23, 2008 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, CartoonChurch.com newsletter, Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.

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