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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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Yeah it's just money laundering anyway:
Adam Ruins Everything - How the Fine Art Market is a Scam | truTV
YouTube video by truTV
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December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
see part of the fun when I originally made and posted this on Twitter was desperately trying to get the (here excised) screenshot of the envelope with its green wax seal in the movie that looks just like the Taskmaster envelope HOWEVER the only option was scrubbing through a gray market cam stream
paulhaine.bsky.social Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · Apr 22
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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yonsoncb.bsky.social
I wanted everyone to hang out but that didn’t happen so as one does, I I made it happen in my fan art 😅 putting that aside did you guys like the finale? Did you like the season itself? Do you think we could have a season 3?

#fionnaandcake #adventuretime
December 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display

It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
chrisdeleon.bsky.social Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15d
using AI cuts corners on involving people who know better. negativity for christmas is an awful ad concept even if it was made by people - so a creative team would push back on the request. business people like AI doesn't argue, not understanding experts were protecting them from their own bad ideas
en.afp.com AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15d
"The most terrible time of the year"

McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
u.afp.com/S7sF
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Gag 229: Alternate punchline: It's beginning to look a lot like late stage capitalism.
Two people walk down a city street with shop windows with Christmas decorations, people buying presents, a Santa with a bell, street lamps with wreaths. One says to the other "I think it's up to the 55 days of Christmas"
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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2 weeks left. Can we give the webcomics community the gift of a modern, designed-for-comics, self-hostable, webcomics CMS for 2026?
panelparty.net Panel Party (Working on Comix Cleric!) @panelparty.net · 17d
Introducing Comix Cleric, a web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators and jam packed with features, you can learn more by checking out the Kickstarter NOW!

#comic #webcomic #webcomics #kickstarter
Comix Cleric - The Indie Way to Host Indie Comics!
A web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators!
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December 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The city is a really good example of where they get some great depth, feeling so much wider a world than the flat, narrow path you travel along.
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Gag 229: Alternate punchline: It's beginning to look a lot like late stage capitalism.
Two people walk down a city street with shop windows with Christmas decorations, people buying presents, a Santa with a bell, street lamps with wreaths. One says to the other "I think it's up to the 55 days of Christmas"
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Hey artists, post some art you made from before Bluesky

From back when I had a webcomic.👨‍🦳
The image is a cartoon mocked up to look like a side-scrolling video game. A dragon with viking helmet has a tongue as long as it, forked, with hands on the end, one holding an axe, the other a sword. A wizard throws up a purple forcefield to stop the dragon's flames. A princess shoots a star wand in each hand at a long haired snake that's come from an wicker basket. The green dragon has pink butterfly wings and clutches a lightning bolt in its tail. They are in a cave with the dragon's treasure, gold coins, gems, pizza and a heavy metal album. A demonic batwinged figure flies in the air with big boots like the rock band Kiss. Their are health bars for Wizard, Princess and the dragon named "Hot Licks In a cartoony mock up of a video game, an orange space-suited princess riding a minocorn (a minotaur coming out of a horse's forehead where a unicorn horn grows from), charges a living pink dressed doll while a toga wearing, key wielding warrior flips out of the way of hot yellow eye beams coming from a towering, angry freckled, while dress wearing princess. He health bar is labelled Royal Pain. The background is of a pink-bannered castle, with a ghost tied up by rope, held captive, a rainbow urn making bubbles and a large treasure chest. In a cartoony mocked up boss battle, a princess in an orange space suit and a wizard who's head is a crystal ball of eyes battle a giant figure. olive green and yellow, the boss's head is a light green globe of liquid with skulls floating in it. Three other skulls float around outside it, one with manidbles & 1 eye, 1 with horns and moustcahe, one with long hair, headband & mirror shades. A smaller minotaur fights along side this figure who's health bar calls them Skullosus. In the back is a waterfall with a spooky face, a castle and a mountain with a crown on it. There's a power up that's a floppy disc, one that's a grey beard and moustache, and the wizard (who has no mouth) is drinking a potion. Rocks falls from the sky. The image is a cartoon mocked up to look like a side-scrolling video game. On a background of blue skies and green hills, the games' boss is a pot of gold with three arms ending in claws that are rainbows, one of which comes from its mouth, like a tongue. Its face is in the pile of gold popping over the top of the black cauldron body. One arm is grasping a 70s/80s robot wearing a luchadore mask. Another is slashed by a toga-wearing buff warrior with a sword. The pot sits atop a pile of bones, mostly skulls. There are power ups that include spotted go-go boots, a viewmaster, a stack of pancakes and clunky old headphones. There are two mini enemies, a floating woman's head with long trail of hair behind, like a part penanggalan, and a steam-powered flying mean mushroom. There's a mean looking star that tapers into lightning bolts on its bottom, which might be a power up or an enemy. Health bars name the heroes warrior and robot, and the villain Painbow.
December 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Gag 228: It was funnier when I did it with Santa, but I tried this variation too.
A confused adult looks at a snowman that has one large belly and several smaller spheres around it (supported by sticks) each with a variety of unreal patterns of coal eyes, carrot noses and hats. The child making it says to the adult "It's not a mistake. I'm making a biblically accruate snowman"
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
I used to hate Christmas in Vancouver because I grew up in Ottawa where December is usually snowy. Here, it's usually raining. But now I think it's kind of charming that everyone here still does Christmas activities in the rain because they're so determined to have a good time.
A comic I drew about Christmas in Vancouver Panel 1: Four people in the rain at a Christmas market Panel 2: Two people in the rain picking a Christmas tree Panel 3: Four people in the rain caroling Panel 4: A couple and a child in the rain at the festival of lights
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I love how Absolum really uses the immediate foreground to create interesting compositions and depth. Often wonderfully deep backgrounds too when it calls for it to feel wide and expansive. Gonna use this game as a teaching example next year.
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Gag 228: It was funnier when I did it with Santa, but I tried this variation too.
A confused adult looks at a snowman that has one large belly and several smaller spheres around it (supported by sticks) each with a variety of unreal patterns of coal eyes, carrot noses and hats. The child making it says to the adult "It's not a mistake. I'm making a biblically accruate snowman"
December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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blacksalander.bsky.social
It's fine it's fine, everything is fine, it's good right? yeahhh I'm sure it's fine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrJ...
NVIDIA: WTF?
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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christyceeck.bsky.social
Well, he's gone and done it. PM Goldman Sachs has replaced the excellent Kirsten Hillman with an investment banker buddy with an ethics problem in the past that cost him a job.

Wiseman was also among the first to donate to Carney's leadership bid.

#CdnPoli
CP NewsAlert: Carney names investment banker Mark Wiseman as next U.S. ambassador
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing a global investment banker and pension fund manager to be Canada's next ambassador in Washington.
ca.news.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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gipperfish.bsky.social
This Fall, I taught a 400-level comics course at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under our Major Authors rubric, on the comics Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. I posted a recap of each week using #comicteaching. This thread contains all of those posts, as well as a link to our syllabus.
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four #51 (1966): "I've done it!! I'm drifting into a world of limitless dimensions!! It's the crossroads of infinity--the junction to everywhere!"
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Gag 227: So many variants.
A sad kid sits on a mall Santa's lap. Santa says "I sounds like you had an eventful year but this isn't confession. You're still on the naughty list."
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Happy Winter Solstice. Whatever light you celebrate in the dark this season, may that warmth continue well into the new year and sustain you in the cold months to come.
In a blue snowy night, four kid adventurers ride a bark-skinned and pine branch backed smiling dragon with a candle on its nose lighting their way. There are two wizards, a barbarian knight and a leaf-caped druid (who flies along side them), In the background has snow-covered evergreen, bare deciduous trees and a town with orange-lit windows and snow covered roofs, including a tall stone tower.
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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sherlockhulmes.bsky.social
Altheya; The Dragon Empire - Campaign Setting Book made alongside Roll & Play Press!

KS Coming very early next year. Bright, Hopeful, Classic High Fantasy, built from a place of love and passion for the genre.

NO AI. Human writers, Human artists. #ttrpg #dnd

rollandplaypress.com/highrollers
Coming soon: Altheya: The Dragon Empire – A High-Fantasy 5E Setting
Enter a land where dragons rule, planes clash in eternal wars, and magical vaults hold ancient secrets. A campaign setting for DnD.
rollandplaypress.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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dykeonik.com
The quoted meme of red-button choice with the fuck AI option extended: "RAM & storage prices return to normal & capital loses power & energy & water & land are less wasted & critical thinking is less damaged & oligarches lose a major avenue for propaganda & fewer people experience psychotic breaks & creativity is actually valued & the code that materally impacts your life has fewer bugs &" the last line is partially cropped
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
brianmcl.com
Hey artists, post some art you made from before Bluesky

From back when I had a webcomic.👨‍🦳
The image is a cartoon mocked up to look like a side-scrolling video game. A dragon with viking helmet has a tongue as long as it, forked, with hands on the end, one holding an axe, the other a sword. A wizard throws up a purple forcefield to stop the dragon's flames. A princess shoots a star wand in each hand at a long haired snake that's come from an wicker basket. The green dragon has pink butterfly wings and clutches a lightning bolt in its tail. They are in a cave with the dragon's treasure, gold coins, gems, pizza and a heavy metal album. A demonic batwinged figure flies in the air with big boots like the rock band Kiss. Their are health bars for Wizard, Princess and the dragon named "Hot Licks In a cartoony mock up of a video game, an orange space-suited princess riding a minocorn (a minotaur coming out of a horse's forehead where a unicorn horn grows from), charges a living pink dressed doll while a toga wearing, key wielding warrior flips out of the way of hot yellow eye beams coming from a towering, angry freckled, while dress wearing princess. He health bar is labelled Royal Pain. The background is of a pink-bannered castle, with a ghost tied up by rope, held captive, a rainbow urn making bubbles and a large treasure chest. In a cartoony mocked up boss battle, a princess in an orange space suit and a wizard who's head is a crystal ball of eyes battle a giant figure. olive green and yellow, the boss's head is a light green globe of liquid with skulls floating in it. Three other skulls float around outside it, one with manidbles & 1 eye, 1 with horns and moustcahe, one with long hair, headband & mirror shades. A smaller minotaur fights along side this figure who's health bar calls them Skullosus. In the back is a waterfall with a spooky face, a castle and a mountain with a crown on it. There's a power up that's a floppy disc, one that's a grey beard and moustache, and the wizard (who has no mouth) is drinking a potion. Rocks falls from the sky. The image is a cartoon mocked up to look like a side-scrolling video game. On a background of blue skies and green hills, the games' boss is a pot of gold with three arms ending in claws that are rainbows, one of which comes from its mouth, like a tongue. Its face is in the pile of gold popping over the top of the black cauldron body. One arm is grasping a 70s/80s robot wearing a luchadore mask. Another is slashed by a toga-wearing buff warrior with a sword. The pot sits atop a pile of bones, mostly skulls. There are power ups that include spotted go-go boots, a viewmaster, a stack of pancakes and clunky old headphones. There are two mini enemies, a floating woman's head with long trail of hair behind, like a part penanggalan, and a steam-powered flying mean mushroom. There's a mean looking star that tapers into lightning bolts on its bottom, which might be a power up or an enemy. Health bars name the heroes warrior and robot, and the villain Painbow.
December 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
I got one more restock in at the Arts Market before I head off for the holidays! more wizard stickers, pocket dungeon three packs, playmap blankets, and more!
a photo of my spot in the Arts market; the wall is painted dark green, and there's a walnut shield holding books and blankets and a blanket hangs from a basket hanger on the wall a close-up shot of the section of the shelf holding my three pocket dungeons; around them are stacked many three-packs a close-up of a stack of By Crom! comics, beside wizard stickers and accordion fold map zines
December 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I passed up French Salad flavoured chips, candy that I can't tell if is super sour or super fizzy, non Burger King burger king fries, and big bags of small bags of Lonely God. I'm realizing that Want-Want is the translation that we get as Hot Kid, a less, but still creepy, name for their company.
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I know it can be a sensitive issues, but whoever put out those Epstein Files was over-redacting.
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM