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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

The birthday card turned out pretty good drawing on a low to the ground easel. We randomly rolled up Chick's head on Petal's body, alongside donuts with gummi worms as a topping and a unicorn bicycle as a prize. I think the mad libs turned out pretty good too. #WOTS #KidLit

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Happy 50th Birthday Owl! You have had 50 years of swim-out-loud comics, brain-running puzzles, news and expert advice on topics like the environment, bullying and big baseball, amazing animal profiles (our favourites were the frying pan-tailed cat horse and the volleyball octopus and so much more. Here’s to infinity more years of learning, fun and strawberry sea monsters.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 12h

Some recentish pasteups by Wallflower #Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti

Black and white photo of Putin on a moped with a smiling bride Trump riding, embracing from behind

A woman pin up sitting on the head of trump with a canadian maple leaf over his mouth

A pin up woman in a swimsuit. Like all of these stuck on a wall of colourful spray paint.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 9h

Detail from my kid lit art postcard for tomorrow for spooky month.

two tweens, one scared, hiding behind a stump looking back towards the viewer, the other hiding behind a fallen tree, her face green with screen light as she uses her phone with worry. It's a night in autumn.

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 3h

Quote your art with fire on 🔥

Cosmic Goose Rider drawn in emulation of Steve Mellor's Goose Rider.

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @jpawlik.com · 29/09/2026

Hey go grab the Queer Romance bundle on itch, which has the full Dead City PDF (the comic in it's entirety!!! + extras) Bundle ends in 1 day, go go go!!

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 3h

Quote your art with fire on 🔥 It's one of my fav tshirt designs. Always get good comments on it.

A blue jeans wearing werewolf riding a BMX red bike leaps from the maw of a dragon head breathing fire, having ridden along its roller coastery tongue that ends in a hand giving the heavy metal fist symbol. The flames from the dragon's breath turn into the shape of bat-winged skulls.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 5h

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 7h

The Memorial Cloth is a 60-metre commemoration the honours the names of thousands of children that died as a result of residential schools in Canada. It is displayed each year as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Parliament Hill.

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𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. 𓆩♡𓆪 @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 9h

that’s the sort of tech I enjoy on the catwalk, not robots or a whole show created by generative AI

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Sygnin @sygnin.com · 4h

Instead of doing Inktober and giving yourself tendonitis out of FOMO, check out one of these that may better match your interests and pace. Or do Restober for real and take a break, no ‘oh-I-forgot-to-set-my-alarm’ or whatever

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 5h

QRP with an SFW pinup I was inspired to mock up a Crown of Candy intrigue dating sim. Dropout, call me.

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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 8h

BOO! 👻 SLICE 2026 (and Halloween!) is only one month away. We've got 100+ artists, poets, printmakers, and writers coming at ya. We've got workshops, talks, and activities all day. All free to attend at The Sheldon @sheldonstl. Learn more and watch the countdown: slicexpo.org/expo/

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 8h

Hear and there are opposites. I have sad news. There, there. I have great news. Hear, hear!

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 9h

Detail from my kid lit art postcard for tomorrow for spooky month.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Think I’m gonna make this into a sticker but as long as it’s for personal use (or better yet, defacing Ai promotion/pollution 😈) I’m cool if anyone wants to print it out for that.

Illustration of a hydra like creature that is a hand with too many fingers. Pencils are piercing through its body. Text says “ death to ai” “ kill it with human hands”

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Mazie @sillyartcollector.bsky.social · 9h

💫WISHAPON 💫 A teen girl finds a capsule vending machine that grants wishes. She wishes to be rich, but the thing about a gashapon machine is that you don’t get to choose what you get. #DVpit #MG #GN I've decided to step back as illustrator on this project, but have some concept art.

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BrianBeLeafs @brianbeleafs.bsky.social · 11h

Game #1. Montreal 3 V Toronto 1. #Leafs

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 11h

I'm overwhelmingly fond of kaiju suits that think outside of the humanoid box, like Pestar (two suit actors holding hands) or Twin Tail (face by the feet, performer sees out of the tail).

Pestar, a bat head joined by two starfish shaped wings

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 13h

Tomorrow, October 1st, is KidLitArtPostcard day! Please try to only use that hashtag ON the event. For more info: www.ginaperry.com/postcard #kidlit #kidlitart

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All about KidLitArtPostcard — Gina Perry Children's Book Author and Illustrator

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#IdeasAtWork When has car parking ever helped to reduce or eliminate congestion on roads? Wonderful explainer of maximum road capacity, with fancy colours overlaid on of most recent Critical Mass ride for context by Brian Tao h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #BikeTO

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 12h

Some recentish pasteups by Wallflower #Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

77/ Some of the people I've seen around Toronto. #Art #Sketch

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating article, and it's interesting to think about why most games with presumptive colons sound awkward, yet some are just perfect titles. Good example of this in my mind is Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. What a perfect title, getting across mechanical form and story/setting concisely.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 12h

Every time I talk to a new health professional about my kids they ask "is there any history of trauma?" and I say "Well lock down was pretty rough" and they are all surprised and like "huh, I hadn't thought of that before." 🙃

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 12h

Realizing the films that 'made me" are excellent introductions to a genre. Goonies should predate Lionheart for "kids on a mission" but I couldn't resist the symmetry. Also, Star Wars isn't "sci fi" as much as "so many weird monsters in a room" speculative fiction (Cantina scene).

Conan the Barbarian, Star Wars, Lionheart (1987), Danger Diabolik, Hard Ticket To Hawaii, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, Rumble in the Bronx, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail and Hellraiser.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

Also, exploring new physical spaces is good for the brain. Even walking down a different, less optimal path to the store helps make fresh synapses fire which sparks creativity. Apparently it's neuroscience. Getting your brain into a space where things seem novel sparks novel connections and ideas.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

I keep setting up micro goals for my free time art. Like sketching while I watch TV with my wife. For a while I was drawing Witcher characters in different styles. Now it's trying to draw people I saw that day, focusing on fashion. Always looking for a new area to play/improve with low stakes.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

Love the contrast of colours and break up of space in this one.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bedford Avenue, London WC1B Cast concrete building with large glass frontage at dusk #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

I've been thinking about mine already too. I've got a backlog that jumps styles as I've gotten better over the years, but some of the oldest gags still hold up.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

77/ Some of the people I've seen around Toronto. #Art #Sketch

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 29/09/2026

More raccoons on electrical boxes along Yonge, this time by Emily May Rose. #Toronto #StreetArt

Other side of the box, this time one raccoon is literally hanging from the top of the building. Another is inside, against the dark window panes.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Draw!

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎉THE WUMP is out today, available wherever books are sold! I hope you and your kiddos enjoy it.😈

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bedford Avenue, London WC1B Cast concrete building with large glass frontage at dusk #reference #materialreference #buildingreference #lightingreference

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 28/09/2026

Squirrel Girl beats up the Marvel Universe?

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 28/09/2026

Who are you adding? What's the UK contingent I'm missing?

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 28/09/2026

Please clarify your answer, Chris.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 25/09/2026

Who are you some of your casting choices for an all femme Expendables reboot/spinoff?

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Artist! Quote with the artwork you cannot explain! ❔ That's like 90% of what I draw. I just draw shit, I don't know what it's all about. Usually it's better that way.

Man whose head and shoulders are consumed by an unusual mass.

Wrinkled thing with pants and shoes. Two woobly arms are pointing to either side.

Tiny man whose upper head is just 4 hairs flowing skyward. He smiles mysteriously.

Birdlike thing, but so not a bird. Head is especially alien.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 25/09/2026

Still Friends is a sweet story about stoicism and learning to understand different love languages (among other nuanced elements of friendship). Excellent cartooning too. @troystory.bsky.social #KidLit 📚👍 👍📚

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 25/09/2026

2nd DnDoggos book doesn't disappoint. Loved the opening monster! And if your kiddos prefer cats to dogs, there's one who makes a sweet addition to the cast. Great for kids who love TTRPGs like DnD. #KidLit 👍📚 📚👍

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