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BrianMcLachlan
@brianmcl.com
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Website: http://brianmcl.com
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Author of Spruce Street Squad in Owl Magazine
he/him demi/ace
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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 209: Are you toying with me?
Beside an overturned tub with toys sprawled all over the floor, an anthro cat mom looks angrily at her cat kid who is painting with watercolours. The mom has a word balloon with several tails pointing to her with the words "How many times do I have to tell you to clean up your toys before playing with something else."
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Some cool band names of anyone wants to use them

-More Human Than Human Centipede
-Human Centipeter Cetera
-Moomin Centipede
-HMNCNTPD
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 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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Coming to you with a 1-2 punch on New Comic Book Day: X-VENGERS issue 2 and UNDEAD IRON FIST issue 3! Both written by me! Both with reveals and surprises! Get them now at a local comic shop near you.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 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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Gag 209: Are you toying with me?
Beside an overturned tub with toys sprawled all over the floor, an anthro cat mom looks angrily at her cat kid who is painting with watercolours. The mom has a word balloon with several tails pointing to her with the words "How many times do I have to tell you to clean up your toys before playing with something else."
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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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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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You: It's September I'm already in Halloween mode

Me: Getting ready for the better fall holiday
A flimsy square picture book called Batman Says Thank You. He, Nightwing, Flash, Robin and Green Arrow are in shiny angular cool edgy style, as they sit around a table where Alfred adds another tray of food to a full table with ham, beans, mashed potatoes and pie. The background, as you may not guess for a Batman book, is white and light green.
September 13, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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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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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