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BrianMcLachlan
@brianmcl.com
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Website: http://brianmcl.com
COMPLETE THE QUEST: http://bit.ly/3xLnMp7
Comic Tutorial Videos: http://bit.ly/3EvX8CX
shop: http://brianmcl.threadless.com
Author of Spruce Street Squad in Owl Magazine
he/him demi/ace
#KidLitArt #TTRPG
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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · Jul 4
Intro Post: I'm the cartoonist of Complete the Quest: The Poisonous Library, the 1st RPG graphic novel & Draw out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics. I also write Owl Magazines' monthly Spruce Street Squad comic, and have cartooned for Nickelodeon, The Nib, the New Yorker and more.
The cover of Complete the Quest: The Poisonous LIbrary. A yellow dragon person in purple robes stands back to back with a black woman who is a sun priest as they battle magenta throny tentacles. In the background they are aided by a short green flowerkin rouge, a flying bird-suited druid, and two blue-haired dwarves. They are in a dark grey cave with blue and purple crystals. A blurb reads "Part comic, part game, all joyous adventure - Ryan North" The cover of Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics by Brian McLachlan. The cover features a dragon, battling heroes, a burglar, a rocket ship guitar, a talking pine tree, two kid pirates, a dog chasing a cat (both in airplanes), a barfing cloud and a hand holding a pencil that's a magic wand.
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Ah, i also did one of those Black Fridays. My ttrpg games are half off and my comics are pay what you want. Check em out. hulkhoquinn.itch.io
Ttrpg cover of a demon eating a meat textured logo Comic cover of a young guy showing 2 massive armored creatures a flyer Ttrpg cover of a gremlin flashing a mogwai as other gremlins sneak behind it Ttrpg cover of a ghost lady standing in the middle of the road
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Happy Black Friday! I'm not doing a shop sale, but all my stuff is in Canadian dollars so it's almost LIKE a sale all year round, wow! You can get all these items and much more - ko-fi.com/elainemwill/...
Some of my shop items, including my graphic novel The Last Band On Earth, my Ghost Car print, my two Little Guys prints, and all my stickers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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you smile so wide, I can see the sides
illustration of my character Helene; a woman sitting on a vending machine __ #kimgakaku #runx2
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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From the archive:
In a car lot, a man with a baseball cap and beard sits high up in a giant black SUV looking down on the salesperson and asks "Do you have one big enough to protect my fragile feelings?"
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles — if only the carmakers wanted to sell them
A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup — but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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They are very stylish!
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Some of the cards on my threadless site:
A snowman with stick arms, the right arm branching out to form a menorah With full packs, Santa and a viking meet in the snow. Santa's leaving a cabin with smoke from its chimney. The viking is leaving a hut ablaze. The viking says "You break into people's homes and GIVE them stuff? You must be new to this." A little kid in bright red parka and toque rolls a tiny snowball with three huge word balloons stacked in a snowman-shape with the words "It'll be the biggest one ever." A family of rabbit cozy up in their home, two kids playing cards, a mother knitting, getting a kiss from a father with a mug of cocoa. There's a fireplace with a roaring orange fire flanked by tall stacks of chopped wood. A kitchen with kettle can be seen in the background and a snowglobe with castle rests on the inside window ledge. In fact the whole piece is seen through a window with snow on the ledges where two cardinals hang out. There is also a snow covered evergreen coming into frame and snow gently falls. The inside scene is all warm orange yellow and browns, the framing outside elements are cold purples.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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‪Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
From my bicycle commute, egrets, swans, ducks, possums, monarch butterflies.
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This is why I pay for the World Wide Web.

Because it delivers ART!
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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If you’re looking for a Christmas book I illustrated 🎄🐰❤️

Lots of cute animals✨
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lynn-...
If I Could Give You Christmas
This sweet story about animal parents and children reminds readers of the best part of Christmas—sharing beautiful songs, special stories, fun games, and f...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Someone did some low throw ups of Jack o lanterns around Halloween.
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
Hastily spray painted jack o lantern at ground level on a wall of graffiti and 2 more on either side of an inset doorway Another one on a red brick wall by another alley with trees and posts and brick ground.
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Gag 211: Authentic picture of artists/rebels
An antrho teen age alternative/metal/punk rabbit yells at their conservatively dressed, concerned mother rabbit. There's a big word balloon and under it are the words, I don't need you telling me how to use word balloons.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Like 30 years ago I heard a song on the radio that was "You can try but you'll never be Slayer" with lyrics "you may be Public Enemy of even Ministry, but you will never be... Slayer" while sampling raining blood. Can't find hair of it now.
a man is playing a guitar and singing into a microphone on stage .
ALT: a man is playing a guitar and singing into a microphone on stage .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Gag 211: Authentic picture of artists/rebels
An antrho teen age alternative/metal/punk rabbit yells at their conservatively dressed, concerned mother rabbit. There's a big word balloon and under it are the words, I don't need you telling me how to use word balloons.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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By @stephencollins.bsky.social
Christmas at the BBC cartoon by Stephen Collins.
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Gag 210: Art joke
Two anthro dog people. One comforts the other, who is sad. Their word balloon is in the negative space made by their arm via their hand resting on their hip. The balloon reads "I've been in a real negative space"
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Enlarge the sign instead of reducing the dangerously huge 40 km/h? This Vision Zero has zero vision. So bad.
mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 2d
Doug Ford hates wind turbines because they're a visual blight.
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Someone did some low throw ups of Jack o lanterns around Halloween.
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
Hastily spray painted jack o lantern at ground level on a wall of graffiti and 2 more on either side of an inset doorway Another one on a red brick wall by another alley with trees and posts and brick ground.
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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We finally did it! We constructed and swam in the cadaver pool from the novel "Don't Swim in the Cadaver Pool Inside the Villain's Lair!"

Battlemap commission fragment for the Game Master's Book of Legendary Locations.

#ttrpg #dnd #battlemap #darkart #b&wart
black and white TTRPG battlemap fragment depicting a dark subterranean pool full of cadavers. a throne in a stone platform is in the middle of the pool.
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This series is fantastic.
strangeadventures.bsky.social Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities @strangeadventures.bsky.social · 3d
the launch of the new Hobtown Mystery is tonight at Bearly's House of Ribs & Blues!

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November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Rest of the wall, Skam, Hemps and I think Rinse.
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
Scarlet slither of wilstyle with pale yellow depth on teal spots. Ochre wide stroke wildstyle with teal depth and whtie outline. A cartoon bust of a b-boy with backwards cap and white gloves poses to the side chocolate ice cream brown, dark chocolate and black fade on snarled wildstyle with light blue outline on big red dots.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Gag 210: Art joke
Two anthro dog people. One comforts the other, who is sad. Their word balloon is in the negative space made by their arm via their hand resting on their hip. The balloon reads "I've been in a real negative space"
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM