Some news. I’m stepping down from drawing cartoons for the @ChurchTimes. It’s been a privilege to do so for 21 years, and they’ve been brilliant, but it’s time. I’ve written more about this in my newsletter open.substack.com/pub/diagra…
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ALT Cartoon of the Church Times offices, with diverse journalistic activities taking place
It's the UK local elections this Thursday, 7 May. Please vote if you can.
ALT Cartoon showing six numbered doors, with windows next to each. Six people are visible, saying the following things:
“I can’t be bothered to vote”
“My vote doesn’t count in any case”
“I don’t see the point in voting to be honest”
“What difference would my vote make?”
“My vote wouldn’t change anything anyway”
(With ‘Vote extremist party’ poster in the window) “I’ll be voting”
Extraordinary result from @HotpointUK@IndesitUK. Our washer/tumbler broke four times after we bought it in December 2024. We've now been told there is nothing we can do as the one-year warranty has expired. It broke four times in that period and nothing the repairs did worked!
Why left-leaning people don’t stay on Twitter.
Posted a cartoon yesterday. Engagement here 3% of Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook (v approx figures, but it’s that kind of level).
The algorithm here doesn’t want to show you my work, for whatever reason.
A thought for churchy people saying: 'Why are churches deserting X?'
There's more UK users on Youtube, Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok than on X. Why aren't you there*?
[*Reply (imagined). "We are there Dave, you idiot".]
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
Hello world. I’m restarting this little project, aka my guide to cycling on a budget / budgetcycling.uk . Unless there’s huge interest here it will be on Bluesky and Instagram, I think, but let me know. Dave (@davewalker)
Never been less qualified to gatecrash the #clergymaltclub hashtag, but… seems a shame to break the tradition in year 10, so here we are. 0% these days. Hello everyone.
ALT Red glass containing beer, can of Brooklyn Special Effects
News! A new book. Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. It’s a collection of more than 44 cartoons, as seen in my Diagram Club newsletter. First go at self-publishing. A bit late in the year? Yes, but still available for Christmas delivery. Link below.
ALT Book with title Household Problems - Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. By Dave Walker. Colours are purple and teal. Black and white pictures - someone sweeping stuff under a rug, a printer with a sad face, some trays that don’t stack, a spilled drink, and someone tripping over something.
Far too early to be talking about Christmas jumpers, I realise, but for those planning ahead: Cycling Santa Christmas jumpers and t-shirts davewalkershop.com/christmas…
ALT Various modals wearing Christmas jumpers and t-shirts featuring a cycling Santa design
A drawing, with title ‘Economic growth’.
Summary, of sorts: I’m of the opinion that the spotlight needs to be shone on the richest in our society when we’re attempting to solve our problems.
ALT Black and white cartoon. A man with 7 £ signs above his head says to a group of people each with one £ sign about their head ‘we need economic growth’. In the next frame that same man has 16 £ signs above his head, the group still only have one each. Then text: ‘Or, an alternative idea’. The same picture is repeated, with the man with 6 £ signs above his head looking at the people with one each. But this time the next frame shows the man with 2 £ signs, and each person with 2 £ signs. A label says ‘a fairer distribution of wealth’.
Possibly incoherent rantings, but anyway: paragraph break for my newsletter that turned into a diagram: The new even- thinner mobile phone.
ALT Black and white cartoon, title ‘The new even-thinner mobile phone’. Picture of a very thin phone, side on. Labels say ‘so thin’; ‘wow’; ‘etc’. Underneath, the following text: ‘[Oh be quiet. My phone being too thick isn’t in my top 100000 problems, and if I wanted a thinner phone I’d… I don’t know… make one out of a sheet of paper]’
ALT Letter in Times newspaper reads as follows:
Sir;
It’s good to see flags of St George appearing around the country. Every time I see one it reminds me that the patron saint of England is a migrant whose father came from Turkey and whose mother came from Palestine.
Andrew Graystone, Manchester