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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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Or maybe you'd prefer these cozy village shops for the whole family with your choice of 4: Candy shop, book shop, cafe and liquor?
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Or maybe you'd prefer other classic Christmas characters like Hippo in a bathtub, Squirrel in Santa hat and tighy whities, frogs DTF, or just an army tank. War on Earth motherfuckers!
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This year they have a Karate Frog at Michael's weird-as-fuck Christmas ornaments. Maybe should get to battle our squirrel from last year that looked like a TMNT-villain?
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Gag 199: More inkblotting
A cross woman psychologist holds up an inkblot and side-eyes her patient, a butterfly who looks at the blot and says "I hate to sound like a narcissist, but this one also reminds me of me".
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This year they have a Karate Frog at Michael's weird-as-fuck Christmas ornaments. Maybe should get to battle our squirrel from last year that looked like a TMNT-villain?
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A Graffiti Alley wall has been falling apart for a while now. Bricks can't breathe with paint. People are even tagging the reconstruction work.
#Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Gag 199: More inkblotting
A cross woman psychologist holds up an inkblot and side-eyes her patient, a butterfly who looks at the blot and says "I hate to sound like a narcissist, but this one also reminds me of me".
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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im tabling at the mississauga comic expo this weekend ! i'll have zines, and my NEW JUST RELEASED graphic novel ghost circus stocked 🌟~
saturday, november 15 from 10am - 4pm at the hazel mccallion central library
graphic for the mississauga comic expo. text reads Saturday, November 15 10am - 4pm Hazel McCallion Central Library me @ table 321b on the 3rd floor
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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ROM 15 (7504)
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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People want to be with other people. A recent event showcased the wisdom of William H Whyte, and I ask: why don’t our public spaces follow his lead? www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
Parks should be made for people. Why does such an obvious idea elude us?
We need to create spaces where people want to gather, as William H. Whyte argued, but the central requirements are sadly absent in Canadian public spaces
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: How Toronto killed ‘Sesame Street’ with its heritage rules — and how we can bring it back
In the face of opposition from even small groups, the city ends up watering down even the best ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
#IdeasAtWork

Church St pedestrianization plan via @chanface.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/chan...
Rodney 🚧🚇‬ ‪@chanface.bsky.social‬ · 3d Update: had another meeting today with the councillor's office about the Church St pedestrianization plan & things are moving along! We’re aiming for Dundonald to Alexander during Summer 2026, possibly rolled into an extended Pride ped’ztn or FIFA activation! Transpo staff & the BIA are onboard! Image of a pedestrian street Chris Moise‬ ‪@chrismoise.ca‬ · 1mo Love it! I will propose it to the Village BIA and Transportation Staff and see what we can do for next summer.
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Congrats @kateblair.bsky.social on a great book launch for WE BURY NOTHING (DCB @cormorantbooks.bsky.social) at Queen Books! www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/W/We-B... #CanKidLit #BookLaunch

More pics from the launch in thread 👇🏽
Group of smiling people, many holding copies of Kate Blair's We Bury Nothing book, at Kate's book launch. Kate is standing in the middle of the group. Book cake with the cover of Kate Blair's We Bury Nothing as the main decoration. Kate Blair reading from her new book We Bury Nothing at Queen Books in Toronto.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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More photos from @kateblair.bsky.social's book launch for WE BURY NOTHING at Queen Books in Toronto. @parentclub.bsky.social @brianmcl.com @angrykem.bsky.social @ishtamercurio.bsky.social @maureenmcgowan.bsky.social @bevrosenbaum.bsky.social #KidLit #CanKidLit
Two smiling people at Kate Blair's book launch: Debbie and Caroline, bookstore in the background. Three smiling people at Kate Blair's book launch: Debbie, Brian, and Kari. Bookstore in background. Four smiling people at Kate Blair's book launch Three smiling people outside Queen Book sin Toronto
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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My favourite hotel on earth (at least in Montreal). It is really a brutalist low rise motor hotel high a top of a concrete plinth. It remains gorgeous & perfect 60 years later. Heaven.
Place bonaventure concrete bldn River & paths on a courtyard River & paths on a courtyard River & paths on a courtyard
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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kateblair.bsky.social
My book launch for We Bury Nothing is happening on November 8 from 2pm to 4pm at Queen Books in Toronto. Please come if you can!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-bury-no...
#booklaunch #newbook #books #booksky #YA
Image advertising a book launch for We Bury Nothing by Kate Blair, on November 8 from 2pm to 4pm at Queen Books, 914 Queen Street East, Toronto. To the side is the picture of the book cover, with barbed wire and a guard tower, and the tag line 'Bodies or secrets, nothing stays buried forever' below.
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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sound on. I’m still laughing
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Gag 198: A series of inkblot jokes is incoming
A white man looks at an butterfly shaped inkblot being held up by a cross woman psychologist. The man says "What are the odds, it's another article that proves my way of thinking is right!"
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Gag 198: A series of inkblot jokes is incoming
A white man looks at an butterfly shaped inkblot being held up by a cross woman psychologist. The man says "What are the odds, it's another article that proves my way of thinking is right!"
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! The Unhaunters encounter a spirit in the playground slide and offer some lollipops to lure them out.

I'm an experienced cartoonist, illustrator & educator seeking representation for my graphic novels, middle grade, beginning reader & picture books.
From the top of a wooden playground structure, a red slide leads down to the sand below. A glowing yellow goth tween eyes some lollipops held out by a hopeful tween who kneels beside them, enjoying a sucker themselves. Another tween leans against one of the wooden bars on the other side of the slide with a calm quizzical pose. In the playground below we can see a bike and a broken acoustic guitar. Red and ochre fall leaves sail past in the blue night.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Gag 197: I wrote this during lock down but its vibe feels relevant again.
Free medical treatment for our most vulnerable, paid sick days, extra protection for non unionized workers, citizens buying mostly just the necessities.. the free market has spoken and much to my chagrin it's asking for more socialism.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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milkyblood.bsky.social
choose your familiar!
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️

Ooh gorgeous thread starting up here!
#Illustration
An overland map of ice dungeons called North Quest where Pizzard the Pizza Wizard explores 9 different puzzle rooms hosted/guarded by characters like Snakewolf (anagram of snowflake), Douglas the fir tree druid, a tongue twisted door and sphinx lynx.
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
You've got 18ish days to comment on Bill 60, Ford's latest anti bike lane laws! Read our blog on taking action, the importance of identifying intersections w other communities affected & what your local cycling advocacy groups are doing to fight back!

www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/bill-60...
Bill 60: Cyclists, Bike & More
Premier Ford has fired another shot in the war on bikes. Read about how Bill 60 will limit bike lanes and harm cyclists.
www.thebikinglawyer.ca
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM