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Dave Walker
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Diagrams, etc. Author, cycling cartoonist.
Best work is in my free newsletter: https://diagramclub.substack.com/
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A new series of my Household Problems drawings (as seen in my newsletter every week). This one: What your leaning fence says about you.
Black and white drawing with title 'What your leaning fence says about you'. Fence depicted, with different levels of lean: Slight lean. Caption: Of course everything's fine - why wouldn't it be? Medium lean. Caption: Just about holding things together Extreme lean. Caption: Oh no
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This morning at The Cafe.
Picture of iPad on table on which is written ‘drawing a diagram’. There’s a labelled cup of coffee. Though the window a group of people is vaguely visible, with text saying ‘foraging group’. There’s also an annotated bicycle.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Diagram Club #059. It’s my Substack newsletter, containing, this week: Annotated photos (below), bicycle cartoon, Cafe news, Household Problems (season two), and all the usual features. open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...
Pictures of Southend with hand-written labels 1. Pier with shelter in foreground 2. Container ship with man doing boat things in foreground 3. Cafe view 4. Seafront view
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Picture of cafe with notebook and mug. Text says ‘hoping to be back with diagrams before too long’.
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Walking this afternoon. Langdon Hills, Essex.
Four pictures - Hedgerow with sloes - feather - scene with distant skyscrapers - man
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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For anyone waiting for
my newsletter- lots to write about, but wanted to focus on being here in China while I still could. So planning to send it in a day or two when I’m home.
Scenes: podium on stage, man in front of camera, two men with a book, man with bicycle in background
September 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This sums up my experience of China. Young man on the hotel reception desk read this, took me out of the hotel to a corner shop, bought me a screwdriver, and said ‘ this is my gift to you’.
English text from a translation app: ‘i have an unusual request - I need to take the picture out of this frame as the frame is too big to take on the plane tomorrow. but i need a screwdriver to undo it. do you have any idea how I could find one?’ Then same in Chinese
September 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Afraid not, unfortunately.
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Could do with some tech help from anyone who knows about iPads. Does anyone know how I can disable this tiny floating keyboard and force the iPad to use the full-sized one? Google says I can pinch it to the large one - that’s incorrect unfortunately. It would make a big difference to me whilst away.
Screenshot showing keyboard on an iPad.
September 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Had the best day cycling in and exploring Taiyuan, China, with a brilliant bunch of people from an environmental organisation. A few photos. The posters are advertising an event for the launch of the Chinese translation of my book, The Cycling Cartoonist, on Wednesday.
Group of people on bikes Man drawing on iPad Poster advertising cycling event in Chinese Man stands by poster in Chinese advertising cycling event
September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This wasn’t when was planned for yesterday, but can’t complain as far as replacement activities go: Visit to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
September 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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(1/3) Hello all. A little update, as I know some of you are following my progress in China / cheering me on. The photo above was taken at last night’s rehearsal for the TEDx talk. However: sadly the actual TEDx event today had to be cancelled, for reasons that I’m not going to elaborate on here.
Man standing in front of bicycle picture and TEDx Chengdu sign
September 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Rehearsal for tomorrow.
Man standing in front of big screen; on which there’s a cartoon of a house and a cafe. Sign says TEDx Chengdu
September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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First time seeing a physical copy of this today.
Book ‘The Cycling Cartoonist’ (Chinese edition), with window with extensive view behind
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Been cycling today. This is the Greenway, a kind of cycling M25 that circumnavigates Chengdu, China. Opinion: this is what cycling infrastructure should look like.
Man wearing cycle helmet stands in front of impressive cycling bridge
September 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Hello world. I’m in China!
View from plane window
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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From my newsletter (diagramclub.substack.com ): A drawing with title ‘Economic growth’.
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’.
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Possibly incoherent rantings, but anyway: paragraph break for my newsletter that turned into a diagram: The new even- thinner mobile phone.
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]’
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Travel insurance. Sobering to read the list of terrible things that could befall me, including Natural Disasters, or Golf.
Webpage listing Natural Disasters, Winter Sports, Golf
September 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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News. I’m going to China in September. Which, thinking about it, is the current month. Explanation in my newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...
September 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Butterfly field has become Blackberry field. 28 miles* from Tower Bridge**.

* Approx, depending
** I had to pick somewhere
Pictures 1 blackberries 2 field, feet in foreground 3 man 4 field with hedgerow and distant corn fields
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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New diagram: Pep talk
Diagram with two axes. On vertical axis: 'Have got' at top, 'Have not got' at bottom. On horizontal axis: 'That' on left, 'This' on right. The key underneath says X = You. The X is in the top right of the diagram, next to 'Have got', and 'This'.
August 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Such an important feature on TotalEnergies by ITV Cycling and Matt Rendell on the Tour de France rest day programme this evening. In support: a repost of this drawing.
Cycling jerseys, drawing in black and white with text as follows: - 'Petro-chemical company causing climate change' - 'Country where prisoners are tortured' - 'Do some gambling' - 'State with terrible human rights record' - 'Oil company that downplayed the risks from climate change for three decades' - 'Sponsoring cycling makes us look green and ethical'
July 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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As it's Tour de France season, a bike-racing cartoon from 'The Cycling Cartoonist': Jerseys you may well spot within the peloton'.

(Book currently on offer on the Bloomsbury site, by the way: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/search/?q...)
Black and white cartoon: Jerseys you may well spot within the peloton. 20 little pictures: - General classification (sometimes yellow) - Points (imagine a very green shade of white - Young rider (often white in real life too) - Mountains - Unsung domestique (pic is rider with jersey stuffed full of stuff) - Most stylish (complex pattern on jersey) - Beard - Left handed - Best recovery from last night's celebrations (half-full pint glass) - Battling through adversity (grimacing face) - Flamboyancy (ironically, usually a shade of beige) - Pluckiness (a particularly brave shade of orange) - Oh so close (big number 2) - Armchair expert - Keeping up with bunch despite great age (walking stick) - Lantern rouge (lantern) - Plat do jour - Best in show (rosette) - Floral jersey (awarded at random) - Today's raffle winner (pic of winning ticket)
July 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM