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Alexandra Gallant-Lee
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Ali “with an i”

Nature & Science Illustrator, Multi Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 1d
BRAINS is my award-winning comic, now available for purchase in print, from Radiator Comics www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... for $15 and digitally through itch for $6
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Nov 28
You can download BRAINS for $6 on itch right now! alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
The cover of BRAINS - a colorful brain and the word 'brains' Page 1 is a single panel 'It can feel like plucking fruit off a tree... and seeing what's inside' Illustration of a branch of a tree with peaches on it, and a cross section of a peach, instead of a pit, there is a brain Page 2 is 4 panels Panel 1: "...and sometimes" text over an illustration of a peach Panel 2: "it's a pit" (cross section of a peach, with the pit visible) Panel 3: "or a worm" (a fruit with a worm poking out of it) Panel 4: "but sometimes... it's a universe" the brain/pit in the peach from the previous page is zoomed in and now has rings around it like a planet in space An abstract illustration of a nervous system and eyes and the words memory, language processing, cognition, sensory perception, emotion, imagination, visual & auditory processing, logic Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU" Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
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I went to college for criminology and criminal justice and used to do research into law enforcement misconduct as part of my education and have been working on zines lately that through that lens - I've got a zine examining scams and how race and gender play a part I'll have out soon. Also this:
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24d
This Place is a Prison - an examination of former prisons and jails that have been transformed into something new, how we engage with those spaces and whether it is possible to do so ethically or not. $8 www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
A hand holding a small comic called This Place is a Prison, These People Aren't Your Friends, it has the Liberty Hotel in Boston, a former city jail, as the background of the cover
February 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Just TWO copies of this one left, not sure if I will reprint it, but if I do, it will have a different cover, so get this one while you still can!
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24d
Fried Zine Tomato is also available to purchase in print for the first time, too, for $10 🍅 www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
a hand holding a copy of my comic, Fried Zine Tomato, the cover has three tomato fruits on it and a bunch of sprawling vines
February 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Two pages from BRAINS, which you can get now, print or digital.

$15 print: www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
$6 digital: alexandragallant.itch.io/brains

My award winning comic, a 40 page love letter to the brain (and hate mail to AI) and the joys of thinking, perceiving and being human.
It feels like there are AI snakes on every plane sometimes Two Snakes: you must use it! You must! MUSSSSSST! Another Snake: "We need your fresh data!" Chorus of Snakes: "Feed us! Feed us! Writing isn't just writing, it's thinking through ideas. Finding language to describe your experience. Putting your thoughts into words. Add some drawings, we got a comic stew going, baby. The creative process is an adventure just waiting for you to discover it (a little pink frog travels through a landscape on his adventure) It's up to YOU to go on a journey within yourself. (The little pink frog is holding a map, all destinations are "you") A plausibility generator/plagiarism machine can't help you with that. (The frog rejects the robot)
February 13, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Doing a bit of a reorganization of my office, retiring one of my displays from tabling and using it as a paint rack permanently. Also, got a cupcake stand at the thrift store and turned it into an organizer for my inks and watercolor paints.
A shelf with paints on it next to a cake display stand that has jars of ink instead of cupcakes
February 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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oh my gosh, ONE copy left! will it be yours? will you go on a silly journey with me and discover how I tried to grow tomatoes in my tiny apartment and spent months sketching and painting them as they grew out of control til the point that they touched the ceiling of my kitchen
February 13, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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whenever i clean my apartment my dog just stands perfectly still in the middle of whatever room i'm in and stares at me like this
moki the terrier dog, his stance firm and wide, staring at me with worried orphan eyes
February 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

1/11
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!

(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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omg a cheating scandal in CURLING !! the olympics are a gift
February 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day like an art person should. A zine fair, an exhibition on sex and cults, and an on-demand love note written by a poet at the Brooklyn Museum are a few recommendations we have for a truly satisfying weekend.
Your Guide to a Sexy, Artsy, Non-Boring Valentine’s Day in NYC
A Brooklyn zine fair, an exhibition on sex and cults, and other activities to spend the day with your lover, your polycule, or just yourself.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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When we were evaluating them at the hospital I worked at over a decade ago, surgeons tried them and the response was "I guess I could see how this could be useful with a lot of caveats, but it's a lot easier to see how it will be terrible and make us look like assholes and creeps" and that was that.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h
I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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This chair would get 20x funding on Kickstarter today
Cover of the February 1987 issue of BYTE: The Small Systems Journal. Against a textured blue background, a wooden school desk-chair hybrid is shown with a small laptop-like computer built into the desktop, its screen displaying lines of text. The headline reads “Educational Computing,” with issue details and pricing listed at the top.
February 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Just TWO copies of this one left, not sure if I will reprint it, but if I do, it will have a different cover, so get this one while you still can!
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24d
Fried Zine Tomato is also available to purchase in print for the first time, too, for $10 🍅 www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
a hand holding a copy of my comic, Fried Zine Tomato, the cover has three tomato fruits on it and a bunch of sprawling vines
February 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Of course it's Whoop. I've never seen more ghost jobs by a single company in Boston than Whoop and it's like do the jobs exist? Are you trying to artificially show growth and activity by posting jobs you never hire for just for data collection purposes? Who knows!
andrewqmr.bsky.social Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 12h
“Thursday’s event, held at the Kenmore Square headquarters of Whoop … was the official kickoff of the new Massachusetts AI Coalition. The private sector initiative describes its mission as making Boston ‘the most welcoming city in America’ for entrepreneurs working on new AI startups.’”
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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it's so sad that people's response to removing AI from teaching is "arent you worried the kids will fall behind?" as if learning critical thinking skills and how to express themselves articulately will somehow hurt them.

AI really does just steal so much from us.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
www.npr.org
February 13, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Two pages from BRAINS, which you can get now, print or digital.

$15 print: www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
$6 digital: alexandragallant.itch.io/brains

My award winning comic, a 40 page love letter to the brain (and hate mail to AI) and the joys of thinking, perceiving and being human.
It feels like there are AI snakes on every plane sometimes Two Snakes: you must use it! You must! MUSSSSSST! Another Snake: "We need your fresh data!" Chorus of Snakes: "Feed us! Feed us! Writing isn't just writing, it's thinking through ideas. Finding language to describe your experience. Putting your thoughts into words. Add some drawings, we got a comic stew going, baby. The creative process is an adventure just waiting for you to discover it (a little pink frog travels through a landscape on his adventure) It's up to YOU to go on a journey within yourself. (The little pink frog is holding a map, all destinations are "you") A plausibility generator/plagiarism machine can't help you with that. (The frog rejects the robot)
February 13, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Kind of wish more folk would frame art and creativity as being a bit like running in their heads or something.

Is everyone naturally brilliant at it? No. If you work at it will you improve? Yes you probably will! If you don’t get good is it still worthwhile? Yeah! Can an LLM do it for you? Nope.
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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I think more Whoop users should know that the company's CEO is a MAHA eugenicist kook
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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The argument of most boosters right now is not the tech is good but rather that it is "everywhere." Thus we all should just get used to it.

I'm just so tired of all these men (and some women, to be fair) telling me that I need to accept generative AI.
editrix-rachel.bsky.social Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social · 7h
I'm really in no mood to suffer the opinions of older, white male AI boosters.
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Eyvind Earle painting of London Bridge for Disney's The Truth About Mother Goose (1957).

#wardsmorguefile
Colorful painting of London Bridge from the 1600s, with lots of buildings and lodgings on the stone bridge.
February 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Fellow #Massachusetts journalists: From now on, if you receive a written statement from an executive branch official or spokesperson, please ask them to disclose whether they used ChatGPT to produce it and share their answer, or lack thereof, in your story.

#mapoli
andrewqmr.bsky.social Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 12h
“[Sam] Altman appeared via video to help [Governor Maura] Healey announce that #Massachusetts will be the first state to roll out OpenAI’s ChatGPT software to all 40,000 employees of the executive branch of government.”

#mapoli
At launch event for new AI council, Gov. Healy says state employees will get access to ChatGPT
Gov. Maura Healey announced the three-year, $4.3 million annual deal with OpenAI at a Thursday event launching the Massachusetts AI Coalition.
www.masslive.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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🌿VISIT THE ZAUN BOTANICAL GARDENS🌿

Travel Poster I worked on summer of 2025 & can finally show! I adore the lore & cultural history of Zaun & wanted to capture my vision for a free Zaun's floating botanical gardens, inspired by the Grand Palais & the Allen Gardens Conservatory.
An art nouveau styled poster in jewel tones for the Zaun Botanical Gardens, featuring an illustration of floating glass conservatories in front of a waterway. Four images of the goddess Janna flank the art, invoking the four winds
February 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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The Cartoonist Co-op is launching the Anti-Censorship Comix Anthology; a collection of protest comics centering taboo topics in the face of ongoing censorship against erotica, horror, and other kinds of transgressive art. Available Feb 25th. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!
A graphic announcing the Anti-censorship Comix Anthology. Text reads, "The Cartoonist Cooperative Presents The Anti-censorship Comix Anthology. Available February 25th. Viewer Discretion is advised! " Art shows the Co-op's mascots Inkling and Nibford reading an unseen comic; Nibford blushes while Inkling turns completely red and involuntarily tosses some ink into the air. Also featured is the cover of the anthology another colorful image featuring a peach covered in white fluid and text that reads "FUCK CENSORSHIP"
February 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Here is the outgoing ED's statement: www.instagram.com/p/DUs3E7eD-j...
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM