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Cartoon from Diagram Club #072: Introducing Creativity diagrams.

See all of the Creativity Diagrams series.

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I’m pleased to announce that a new book of my cartoons is now available. It’s the ninth collection of my Church Times cartoons, titled ‘The PCC Strikes Back’ (title will make more sense to those within C of E circles).

It’s available by ordering from your local bookshop, or buy online via my books page.

I’ve said more about the book here, on the Canterbury Press website.

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Also available as individual images:

All twenty of them, or:

1. It’ll be worth it
2. Bike shed
3. This machine fights climate change
4. Slow and steady
5. A safe route
6. People cycling helps drivers
7. Cargo bike (yes you can)
8. Ding dong
9. NHS
10. There’s a bike
11. Give us space
12. VIP transport
13. Taxes
14. Folding bikes open up possibilities
15. Take care please
16. This week’s shopping
17. E-bikes aren’t cheating
18. Largely fuelled by cake
19. Where there’s a road
20. Have fun out there

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Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams is a collection of more than 44* cartoons, including some you’ll have seen in the previous 66 episodes of this newsletter, but also some new ones. Topics tackled include:

• Technology Problems. Why can’t someone invent a printer that works?
• Kitchen Problems. Where are we going to put one more kitchen gadget?
• Garden Problems. Is that a weed, or a valid plant?
• Living Room Problems. Why can’t I remember which light switch does what?

*45

THANK YOU to everyone who has, at one point or another, sent me Household Problems ideas. Some of them are in there. Please don’t be too offended if yours isn’t – it was the deadline rather than the quality of your suggestion.

Buy now: Amazon (USA)

Book FAQs

You’re announcing this very close to Christmas, Dave.Why? Yes, I know. But this year has been complicated, so December was the only time I could get to work on it. And here we are. But good news: At the time of writing there’s still time for Christmas delivery.

Who has published it? It’s self published, via Amazon KDP.

How much is it? In the UK – £7.99. USA $10.69.

Where do I get it? Amazon. UK, or USA, or the different European Amazon sites, Australia, Japan, you name it. Links below.

OK, I have to ask. Why Amazon? Why not [some alternative]? The very short answer: This book wouldn’t have met the criteria a conventional book publisher would require. And being a full-time cartoonist is a privilege, but also challenging to make work, and I’m doing what I need to do to make it viable.
[There’s a longer answer to this question and some additional FAQs in Part 2 of my newsletter, for Paid subscribers,]

Sample cartoons

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Can you spot the ten differences?

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For the answers, see Diagram Club #045 (posting 27 June, pm).

A printable version is available for Diagram Club Paid subscribers in issue #045 (scroll down to the Paid section at the end).

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Can you spot the ten differences?

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For the answers, see Diagram Club #030

A printable version is available for Diagram Club Paid subscribers in issue #030 (scroll down to the Paid section at the end).

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Weekly planner (vague edition).

Free to print off an occasional copy for personal use. If you’d like to use my work more regularly, print off for other people, or use with a group, then I ask that you join Diagram Club Paid. Thank you!

Download links:

Download high resolution pdf

Download high resolution png image

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One of the first cycling cartoons I drew.

A bit more about the road / sport side of cycling than some of my more recent work.

Found in the Cycling Cartoonist, published by Bloomsbury.

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Some family cycling images suitable for posters, banners, leaflets, websites, etc. The downloadable versions are transparent, so can be used on a background of whatever colour. (Any colour on which a black line is visible, anyway.)

There are three versions, depending on the number and size you’d like.

I ask that you join Diagram Club Paid if you’d like to use these. Thank you!

Practical note for anyone using my work: Please make sure the images aren’t stretched to fit a space, as that always looks terrible and (to put it politely) makes your poster / whatever look a tiny bit amateurish.

Images

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Download links

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

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A fun Christmas activity – print your own Christmas cracker. There are three versions, Santa on a bike, Christmas trees, and a blank one for you to do your own thing.

What you will need

A functioning printer, and card or paper you can print on. It will work fine with paper but will be less rigid than card. A3 might be ideal, but most of us don’t have an A3 printer, so A4 will work too, it will just be smaller. Also scissors, and if you want to colour them in, art materials.

Instructions

1. Print with as small a margin as your printer will manage. The files are at the end of this post. I’d recommend the pdfs if they will work for you, but I’ve supplied image files as an alternative.

2. Fold along the six dotted lines, as it’s easier to do the folding before you start cutting. Hopefully it’s fairly obvious which folds go which way – you should end up with two ‘ridges’. See my photo for vague and approximate guidance.

3. With just the two dotted lines folded (the ones in the middle of the three at each end – if that makes sense) cut out the solid line sections with scissors. You should be able to cut through two layers of paper so you’re cutting out a diamond shape each time. Really tricky to explain.

4. You can colour it at any point, but perhaps best to colour after cutting in case you spend ages colouring then do the cutting wrong and it ends up in pieces…

5. Gather whatever is going into the cracker. Could be a hat, a joke you write yourself, chocolate, anything*! [*That will fit in, you have available, etc etc]

6. Then roll the cracker as best you can into the cracker shape and stick with tape. Glue might work I suppose, but I wouldn’t advise it.

7. It won’t go ‘bang’, so you’ll have to shout that.

Downloadable pdf files

Santa cracker (A4 pdf)

Christmas trees cracker (A4 pdf)

Blank cracker (A4 pdf)

Downloadable .png files

Santa cracker (.png image file)

Christmas trees cracker (.png image file)

Blank cracker (.png image file)

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