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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
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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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Gag 208: Sometimes words don't mean what they mean.
A cheerful anthro bear man in a shirt with the Earth on it and a folder with a tree on it, where the leaves are the shapes of the continents, talks to an annoyed crocodile in a business suit. The bear has a pine tree shape word balloon and the croc has a saw shaped word balloon, mirroring half the tree shape, but lying down. The bear asks "Do you believe in conserving the environment?" and the croc responds "No. I'm a conservative."
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. openmedia.org/Competition4... @openmedia.org
Canada needs a monopoly buster!
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. https://openmedia.org/Competition4Cana...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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THE DARK QUEEN OF MORTHOLME is out! Experience the final boss's side of the story. qwertyprophecy.itch.io/mortholme
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Ahead of tomorrow's @ttcriders.bsky.social streetcar summit, @flurfdesign.bsky.social put out this video explaining why Toronto's streetcars are the slowest on Earth and how they can be fixed. #TTC #TOpoli youtu.be/CPbXfHFbke0?...
The Slowest Trams on Earth: Toronto's Streetcars
YouTube video by flurfdesign
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November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Commissions are open again! These will have a quick turnaround once December hits, but until then they'll need to sit. But this is my "get it done in time for xmas" queue!

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November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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They are very stylish!
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Here’s one (a proper WHO study) “regular consumption of meat products – such as sausages – and sugary drinks make it more likely that someone will get those diseases […] sweets and desserts, ready meals, savoury snacks and plant-based alternatives to meat products […] got the all-clear”
Some ultra-processed foods are good for your health, WHO-backed study finds
Bread and cereals – which are heavily processed – reduce risk of multimorbidity due to fibre content
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Gag 207: More meta anthro exploration
A nervous anthro bear man tugs at his necklace while an anthro bear woman looks at him, puzzling him out. The bear man has a word balloon that looks like a game of hangman with the words you wanna, and then four blanks and three blanks and a question mark. The first two of blanks are filled in with h and a. The woman has 3 though balloons as she tries to figure out what this guys is trying to ask her. Hang out? Have sex? Hams pie?
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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drewweing.bsky.social
Sometimes they get away. This one's from the latest page over at the site: wwww.margomaloo.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Bunso and Qwest (I believe)
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
One a light grey wall, a high contrast dramatically lit green snake hissing venom with an extended swirl of forked tongue. Signed bunso Beside it, a scarlet and pink outlined black, purple and dark cerulean swirling twist of letters over olive green shiny bubbles.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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62/Some of the people I've seen around Toronto, sketching from memory to train my visual storage.
#Art #Sketch
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Just ordered my new Holiday card today. I have the best of my old ones available here, if you are looking for cards in time for the holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah & general winter break).
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Shop the Holiday Cards Collection on Brian McLachlan's Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
A fine selection of cute and funny holiday cards to send your loved ones this winter.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Black Friday on Threadless means my ts are very cheap. Good day to get your nerd apparel. brianmcl.threadless.com
Pizza wizard Dragon that is also a dungeon
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Yesterday was a great day to have a stamp unveiled by Canada Post! Rural places like mine depend so much on CP, we support the workers, and I’m honoured to be in this 2nd graphic novel collection with 5 others! 📬 www.instagram.com/p/DRTQlk4jG9...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Extended fight. #grickledoodle #slow #kaiju #monsters #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
A cartoon illustration of giant sloth, turtle, and slug all slowly coming together to battle in a city. Caption reads "The battle between the three behemoths dragged on for months and months in the city."
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Black Friday on Threadless means my ts are very cheap. Good day to get your nerd apparel. brianmcl.threadless.com
Pizza wizard Dragon that is also a dungeon
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Gag 207: More meta anthro exploration
A nervous anthro bear man tugs at his necklace while an anthro bear woman looks at him, puzzling him out. The bear man has a word balloon that looks like a game of hangman with the words you wanna, and then four blanks and three blanks and a question mark. The first two of blanks are filled in with h and a. The woman has 3 though balloons as she tries to figure out what this guys is trying to ask her. Hang out? Have sex? Hams pie?
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Gag 206: The balloons tell the story
Two young adult cat people are having a pint in a booth. A female cat has a word balloon coming from her mouth but we can't read what it says as 90% of it is covered over with a thought balloon from the male cat that reads "I'll really impress her with my motorcycle story."
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Just ordered my new Holiday card today. I have the best of my old ones available here, if you are looking for cards in time for the holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah & general winter break).
brianmcl.threadless.com/collections/...
Shop the Holiday Cards Collection on Brian McLachlan's Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
A fine selection of cute and funny holiday cards to send your loved ones this winter.
brianmcl.threadless.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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cycletoronto.bsky.social
Join us on a ride in solidarity with tenant & housing advocates from across Ontario meeting at Queen’s Park on National Housing Day to stop Bill 60!

Saturday Nov 22nd.
Meet at Christie Pits Park at noon.
Ride to Queen's Park.

www.cycleto.ca/stop_bill_60_solidarity_rally
Stop Bill 60 poster for Saturday Nov 22nd
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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62/Some of the people I've seen around Toronto, sketching from memory to train my visual storage.
#Art #Sketch
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Bunso and Qwest (I believe)
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
One a light grey wall, a high contrast dramatically lit green snake hissing venom with an extended swirl of forked tongue. Signed bunso Beside it, a scarlet and pink outlined black, purple and dark cerulean swirling twist of letters over olive green shiny bubbles.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The Owl 2 (7638)
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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This is where the strengths of indie comics can shine. We don’t need permission to make our stories however we want. The creative pipeline isn’t weaved to have the dirty, wrinkled by hate, hands of some rich assholes at the nozzle. So while the next wave of tv bombs, make aggressively woke comics.
kellysue.bsky.social Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social · 5d
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM