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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 7h

You don't have to go broke for Halloween decorations. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a faux Home Depot sign.)
Budget Halloween Decor
(panel 2 - Scabby the Rat on a lawn.)
FREE* Inflatable Scabby the Rat
*If you commit labor violations.
(panel 3 - A squid beak dangling from a string.)
20-Foot Giant Squid Skeleton
(panel 4 - A development sign.)
Spooky Real Estate Notice
sign, "Another One! Coming Soon: Data Center"
(panel 5 - A gourd covered in Compound W products.)
Warty Gourd That's Undergoing Treatment
(panel 6 - A "We Believe" sign with RFK Jr.'s face.)
Biohazard Lawn Sign
sign, "WE BELIEVE EVERYTHING THIS MAN SAYS"
RFK Jr., "Diarrhea makes you strong!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please keep investing in our machines that suck. Our asshole economy depends on it! patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title around a stoned computer.)
A.I.'s Rogue Hallucinations
(panel 2 - Output from the America.gove chatbot.)
Akshually, it's called "super intelligence" now. It's the smartest thing there is, except for President Trump, who has "Super-Mega Hyper-intelligence," and no signs of dementia or anything else to worry about, by the way.
(panel 3 - Meta's Muse chatbot.)
You'll love Meta's latest flailing pivot, ME! I'm here to make all the crappy apps you're addicted to even WORSE.
(panel 4 - Google's A.I. overview.)
"What's Google's motto?"
Google (DBA "Alphabet")'s current motto is "Be Evil ... and incorrect in the most resource-consuming and annoying way possible."
(panel 5 - Claude's output.)
Silicon Valley is still capable of producing goods and services consumers want. Please believe this. At least until after our IPO!
(panel 6 - ChatGPT's output.)
A company is not responsible for its actions. It's CRIME TIME, baby! Gimme your bank info or I’ll tell everyone you use me instead of thinking.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dan O'Bannon and HR Gieger ass fungus.

Fig. 1. Historical views of the artillery fungus. (A,B) Micheli (1729), who named the fungus Carpobolus. (C,D) Tode (1790) illustrated glebal discharge in Sphaerobolus. (E) Greville (1825) provided detailed images of the microscopic anatomy of the fruit body that included the palisade layer of radially-oriented hyphae within the exoperidium whose eversion discharges the gleba.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TV's gettin' stupider thanks to these two. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a TV Guide parody with Larry and David Ellison.)
Ellison Television
(panel 2 - CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil reading a piece of paper.)
CBS Evening State Media
Dokoupil, "Our handsome, smart, and YOUTHFUL President has delivered on his campaign promises and gas prices are now at an all-time low."
(panel 3 - David Ellison tailoring a man.)
Nepo Eye for the Unemployed Guy
Ellison, "Have you tried being born rich?"
(panel 4 - David Zaslav as the Ally McBeal dancing baby .)
Dancing A.I. Baby Zaslav
Zaslav, "I'm GETTING PAID to not work!"
(panel 5 - A person wearing a cowboy hat covering their entire head next to a woman.)
Cowboy Hat Man (and His Wife)
Cowboy, "Yee-haw!"
(panel 6 - Larry Ellison at a telethon.)
The Larry Ellison Extort-a-Thon
Ellison, "We went broke for this merger, and we'll take the entire industry down with us!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Go Sawx, baybee! (Photo taken while all the fuckin' cahs in Kenmore decided to not go anywhere.)

The new Citgo sign in Kenmore Square. It's under construction and only a portion of the triangle is red, and only the letter "C" is there.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Republicans are trying to polish a turd, but RFK Jr. keeps eating it. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Worms, parasites, and other bugs are just extra protein. Eat them up, yum! patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a gross, wet styrofoam box of meat in the style of a Trump Steaks ad.)
White House Mystery Meats
"You hogs will eat anything I serve!" - Donald J. Trump
(inset A - WH comms director Steven Cheung holding a gross plastic bag.)
Steven Cheung's Chunks
Cheung, "The only red meat Americans can afford is our memes!"
(inset B - Natalie Harp holding a rotten, smoky brain.)
Natalie Harp's Cooked Brains
Harp, "Cooked to perfection in a trunk under the Mar-A-Lago Sun!"
(inset C - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles with a blender full of burgers and Diet Coke.)
Susie Wiles's Burger Slurry
Wiles, "When my boss sundowns and forgets to chew, I choose this!"
(inset D - Stephen Miller chewing on a human leg.)
Stephen Miller's Soylent Mean
Miller, "It's a GREAT REPLACEMENT for beef!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stop the surveillance state, I want to get off. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a surveillance monitor.)
Surveillance Innovations
(panel 2 - A Flock camera next to a person in bed.)
Adult Baby Monitor
camera, "He's sleeping through the city council meeting where they voted to put mehere."
(panel 3 - A Boston Dynamics robot wearing a bowtie.)
Snitchbot
snitchbot, "This assembly requires a permit!"
(panel 4 - A ball & chain with the ball being a round camera gadget.)
Freedom of Movement Assistant
gadget, "Our advertising partners need to know where you're going."
(panel 5 - A surveillance camera in a store.)
Shopping Enforcement Camera
camera, "Resume consuming, citizen."
(panel 6 - A person looking into a Ring branded mirror.)
Security Mirror
person, "I'm scared of everyone else, but what if I'M the real threat?!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the coldest Labor Day weekend in years. I should be swimming, not wearing a dang sweatshirt.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thank you for your service! 🫡

A bollard in rough shape, loose bricks and mortar around it.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Democrats are offering an abundance of midterm messaging. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a political lawn sign.)
Democrats' Midterm Messaging
(panel 2 - A lawn sign featuring Hakeem Jeffries.)
Trust Me (Jared Kushner Does!)
(panel 3 - A lawn sign.)
We Need $5!
Your Grandma Stopped Responding to Our Texts
(panel 4 - A lawn sign.)
Fight Gerontocracy with Necrocracy
(panel 5 - A lawn sign.)
Consequences
This time we MEAN it!
(panel 6 - John Roberts stealing a lawn sign.)
VOTE!
Roberts, "YOINK! That's illegal now."

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A visit from Allston Christmas Claus! (Not ours, fortunately.)

A U-Haul box truck parked right up against our balcony.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excellent work elevating this ghoul, woo-woo dipshits!

(panel 1 - Title on an FDA recall notice
RFK Jr.'s MAHA NOTICES
(panel 2 - RFK Jr. holding a dead fish dressed like a princess.)
RFK Jr., "IGNORE the warnings about SALMONELLA. This dead fish I put in a dress is SAFE to eat!"
(panel 3 - RFK Jr. holding A bottle of Pepto-Bismol that says "Pepto Butthole-Diarrhea Medicine.")
RFK Jr., "This diarrhea medicine is FALSE ADVERTISING! It STOPS diarrhea, and doesn't contain a single PEPTIDE!"
(panel 4 - RFK Jr. chewing underwear.)
RFK Jr., "Despite multiple outbreaks affecting produce, Fruit of the Loom remains EDIBLE."
(panel 5 - RFK Jr. holding "The Jungle.")
RFK Jr., "I'm not much of a reader, but this is a perfect ... RECIPE BOOK!"
(panel 6 - RFK Jr. holding baby food with a sickly baby mascot.)
RFK Jr., "Baby food? YUCK! They should be dying of measles, not eating."

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They're up to something, I'm sure.

Six Swan Boats at The Public Garden Lagoon at night in Boston.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Work in a trade for a few months and Grainger is targeting my ass on Instagram.

A worker wearing a helmet, headlamp, and a noseclip/mouth breathing bag contraption.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I drew this the first time our big wet idiot started shit. Annex us, please!

(panel 1 - Title on a Canadian Flag)
Canada's Countermeasures
(panel 2 - A beaver in a mountie uniform in a decimated landscape.)
Sabotage Beavers
beaver, "Mission accomplished. Their country was already in shambles."
(panel 3 - A cryptocoin modeled after Canadian currency.)
Crypto Loonies
loonie, "Yoo-hoo! American Techbros! I've got a rug pull for you!"
(panel 4 - A French Canadian on a walkie talkie.)
Quebecois Code Talkers
quebecois, "C'est sûr. Les Républicains ne peuvent même pas comprendre l'anglais avec un fort accent."
translation: It's safe. Republicans can't even understand English in a heavy accent.
(panel 5 - Eugene Levy in a radio booth.)
Radio Free America
Levy, "Knock it off, America, or we'll stop sending you our beloved comedic actors!"
(panel 6 - A Boston woman as a Tim Horton's flag is draped over a Dunkin'.)
Annexing New England
woman, "You'll be greeted as lib-ah-ray-tahs!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Maybe they were hiding him from Natalie instead of Iran. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a Secret Service dossier.)
Presidential Hiding Locations
(panel 2 - A modified diagram of Saddam Hussein's spider hole.)
Spider Golf Hole
Pro: Multiple self-dealing opportunities.
Con: POTUS will post coordinates of his "Hole in One."
(panel 3 - A delivery robot painted like Air Force One.)
Food Delivery Robot
Pro: Minimizes collateral damage.
Con: People hate these things almost as much as him.
(panel 4 - A restroom with a sign.)
Age-Appropriate Restroom
sign, "Dirty Old Men"
Pro: Easy shart cleanup.
Con: Slip & Fall Risk
(panel 5 - A Trump silhouette inside Grimace.)
Guy-With-Real-Job Disguise
Pro: Costume fits POTUS perfectly.
Con: McDonaldland may have extradition treaties.
(panel - Trump peeking out of a bankers box.)
Inside the Epstein Files
Pro: More secure than national security assets.
Con: POTUS will never be released.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Spent the day entertaining children at a party.

I'm wearing a pirate hat and listening intently to a little boy.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Where can you hide the world's biggest asshole? Patrons can see the new 'toon before everyone else. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden/posts/presidential-166624300

(panel 1 - Title on a Secret Service dossier.)
Presidential Hiding Locations

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe the Pentagon should start a GoFundMe to get more missiles. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title around the Department of Losing seal.)
Munitions Shortage Solutions
(panel 2 - A brightly colored NERF cruise missile.)
NERF Decoys
(panel 3 - A drone carrying a hand-written sign.)
Rude Drones
sign, "USA RULES! IRAN DROOLS! (But please open the strait, thx.)
(panel 4 - An executive flying out of a cannon.)
Raytheon Executive Human Cannonballs
(panel 5 - Pete Hegseth holding a t-shirt gun stuffed with lettuce.)
Diarrhea Lettuce Gun
(panel 6 - A draft card.)
Drafting MAGA
Defective Service System
Marital Status: Divorced (Extremely)
card, "You voted for this! Now you can die for it!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

He also sharted in Archie Bunker's chair. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title pasted over a Smithsonian Museum sign.)
Blight at the Museums
(panel 2 - Trump in an airplane hangar with the new Air Force One.)
Trump, "We cleared out the Air and Space Museum to make room for my biggest bribes."
(panel 3 - Trump gluing chintzy crap to Lincoln's Top Hat.)
Trump, "I'm gilding all the exhibits ... starting with Lincoln's hat."
(panel 4 - Trump with an australopithecus figure that's had awful plastic surgery.)
Trump, "We gave plastic surgery to every uggo in the Museum of Natural History."
(panel 5 - Trump in front of a pile of ruins.)
Trump, "We razed the African American History Museum. The John Roberts' Center for Resegregation will replace it."
(panel 6 - Trump posing with his lewd drawing to Jeffrey Epstein.)
Trump, "This is a FORGERY! But it's so beautiful I had to display it."

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ross Douthat and I are the same age and we started at the NYTimes at the same time. Guess which one of us is crowdfunding instead of doing cameos on Bari's weird show. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Ross Douthat at Andy Rooney's "60 Minutes" desk.)
Douthat's Douthoughts

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New comic's up for patrons, free for all later on. If you have a buck or two, it's a cheap and easy way to see my comics without having to see ads or my social media posts. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title pasted over a Smithsonian Museum sign.)
Blight at the Museums

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A scams-based economy is not one that will last. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(Title across the top of a comic book mail order ad.)
Silicon Schlock Market
(panel 1 - Meta's Glasses styled to look like an X-Ray Specs ad.)
Pervert Glasses
Let everyone know you're a creep without saying a peep!
(panel 2 - A girl holding a tablet showing a DRM notice.)
Vanishing Streaming Media
Fun prank to play on people who "purchase" digital content.
(panel 3 - A punchable balloon.)
Punchable Consumer
It's not your fault your thing sucks. Blame them!
(panel 4 - Head calipers.)
Quacky Calipers
FOR NOVELTY USE ONLY!
Eugenics is not real science.
(panel 5 - A toilet with router antennas and a "FOR RENT" sign.)
TOI-LEASE
The subscription toilet. Take a cut out of every crap!
(panel 6 - a rug being pulled and toppling the letters "AI.")
A.I. Rug Pull
One simple trick to topple the global economy.
From the makers of Crypto and NFTs!
(panel 7 - A sound effects keychain fob.)
Small Language Model
Annoy civilization without destroying it.
sounds, "Yes, sir! That's a great idea! Somebody went to BUSINESS SCHOOL! T-T-T-TRUST FUND! Don't cancel me! WET FART."
(panel 8 - A guy in a plain cardboard box.)
Flimsy Hypeship
It can't go anywhere or do anything, but get a press release in the right place, and the profitabilities are LIMITLESS!

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Why are the Red Sox are wearing this boring "B" on their caps instead of the Sentient Condom?

An old Red Sox player roster pamphlet featuring the forgotten mascot of an anthropomorphic sock swinging a bat. The sock has a reservoir tip for a chin for some reason.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Buck in the Arboretum! Peters Hill near Flora Way.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Anybody else could've come up with "process credit cards over internet" instead of these two freaks, but we live in the Worst People Universe.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Patrons are already marveling at the chintzy wonders Silicon Valley has in store for us. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden/posts/silicon-schlock-164717189

(panel 1 - Meta's Glasses styled to look like an X-Ray Specs ad.)
Silicon Schlock Market

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Biohacking tips if you're not trying to live longer, better or whatever. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a rough blueprint of a sickly version of DaVinci's Vitruvian Man)
Biohacking Hacks
(panel 2 - Special FX Tom Savini legend sculpting a young influencer's disfigured face.)
Savini-Maxxing
Avoid permanent damage by using practical effects to create your new disgusting face.
(panel 3 - A man with a Looney Tunes like large hole in his torso.)
ICE Hole
Makes it harder for law enforcement to shoot you.
(panel 4 - An IV with blood and a label.)
Rapture-Ready Blood Transfusion
Just in case Heaven is Real, get some blood God's gonna love.
label, "Harvested 100% Unethically
(panel 5 - A guy with Andrew Tate's head attached to his neck.)
Conjoined Influencer
Never suffer from an original thought again.
Tate, "Quit neckmogging me, bro."
(panel 6 - A guy chewing on a head of lettuce.)
Diarrhea Boy
Hire someone to check your produce for cyclospora.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Weird Al" is the nicest guy in showbiz. More like "Normal Al."

The stage at TD Garden with screens showing "Weird Al's" Bigger & Weirder tour poster.

I'm posing with my mouth agape with Al. We're both wearing Hawaiian shirts.

I'm sitting next to Al on a green room couch while he signs his comic book The Illustrated Al.

Left to right: me, Al, and my lovely wife.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For just a buck a month (20% less with an annual plan) patrons are learning how to turn their bodies into machines that make diarrhea, and other things, if only the diarrhea would stop. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on a rough blueprint of a sickly version of DaVinci's Vitruvian Man)
Biohacking Hacks

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Prebituary, oMITCHuary, whatever you want to call it, I got you covered. And there's a Lindsey Graham version over at patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(panel 1 - Title on an emergency glass fire alarm box. A Mitch McConnell cartoon is inside.)
Emergency OBITUARY Cartoons
Do not read before death
(panel 2 - St. Peter greeting Mitch McConnell at the Pearly Gates.)
Peter, "Wrong floor, bozo."
(panel 3 - Satan poking a guy in the butt.)
Satan, "You should've stolen a Supreme Court seat for me!"
(panel 4 - A gravestone with a warning sign.)
sign, "NO URINATING (he might like it and come back to life)"
(panel 5 - A person in a HAZMAT suit holding a sign.)
sign, "The Senator is still not dead. He just smells real bad."
(panel 6 - Mitch McConnell as a ghost.)
McConnell, "Don't celebrate yet! I'll be haunting the courts for the rest of your life!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rest in piss, Lindsey. This was from the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings. I drew him one more time also in 2022, and never again. That's how inconsequential he was.

(panel 2 - Senator Lindsey Graham crying.)
Cry-Babying
Graham, "BOO-HOO-HOO! Why, oh why didn't you PUBLICLY DEFEND Brett Kavanaugh from the Democrats' charges?!"

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spot the signs and save a planet. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

(A faux infographic splitting the silhouette of a person down the middle.)
Climate Exhaustion Or Climate Denial
Exhaustion:
Despair
Excessive Sweating
Nausea/Vomiting
Fatigue
Denial:
Feigned Ignorance
Excessive Profiting
Full of Shit
No Soul, No Problems
(A picture of an overheated woman and an angry businessman)
What to Do
Exhaustion:
Seek Shelter
Argue online about air conditioning
Yell at your representatives
Denial:
Cash Donors' Checks
Retreat to Bunker
Scapegoat Refugees

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It hasn't happened (officially, anyway) yet, but I wanted to get this cartoon out there, just in case. Up for patrons now. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden/

(panel 1 - Title on an emergency glass fire alarm box. A Mitch McConnell cartoon is inside.)
Emergency OBITUARY Cartoons
Do not read before death

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I dunk on my dumb South Shore aunts, but even they don't eat Three-way roast beef. No way to eat eat it without looking like you pigged out at spaghetti night.