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Alexandra Gallant-Lee

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Ali “with an i” Artist, Nature & Science Illustrator, Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston. AlexandraGallant.com

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 8d

Less than two weeks away, the Watertown Zine Fest!!! Saturday October 18th from 11AM-4PM at the Watertown Free Public Library, I'll be there with Frogby, I hope you can make it!

5th Annual Watertown Zine Fest Saturday, October 18, 11am-4PM, the flyer artwork is a hand giving a high five (cause it's the 5th year of the zine fest!) and each of the fingers has a cute lil face

at the Watertown Free Public Library

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 4h

Saturday!

Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 8d

Less than two weeks away, the Watertown Zine Fest!!! Saturday October 18th from 11AM-4PM at the Watertown Free Public Library, I'll be there with Frogby, I hope you can make it!

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Brianna Nicole Pail 🎃 @pailbn.bsky.social · 13h

I guess it’s #PortfolioDay today!
I’m Bree, a freelance illustrator and merch artist based in Minneapolis.

My project queue is a bit filled atm, but here’s a few pieces (and a WIP) that I’ve enjoyed the past few months!

Ko-Fi shop: ko-fi.com/pailbn

Comms/Freelance inquires: [email protected]

Watership own inspired wheat paste poster. Hard holding a fiery bottle with text “ all the world will be your enemy and whenever they catch you, they will kill you but first they must catch you”

Princess Mononoke Moro and San front face symmetrical drawing

WIP of Great Mouse Detective inspired fanart of Milo from Atlantis as a mouse stand in on a large book

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🕯️ bugs rock 🕯️ @bugsrock.online · 3d

these candles are unscented with hand-painted clouds so no two are identical. they are the dark and SINISTER version of my first collection’s ’touching grass’ sculpture

bugsrock.online/shop#!/misch...

photo of two of my 3-tiered pillar candles that have a purple base, black sky tier and a white moon half-sphere on top. one is lit, both are surrounded by little halloween toys of snakes, skeletons, rats, bats and spiders

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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 12h

Your complete guide to SLICE! Swipe through for:
🎨 Full schedule of events for Saturday
🚗 Parking info
🍕 Food & drink
😷 COVID safety policies

Looking for an answer you can't find here? Head to our webpage or DM us for more info. See you on Saturday at The Sheldon ;)

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The Main Event • 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
St. Louis Independent Comics Expo
Konneker Room, 3rd floor
Activity • 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tote Bag Screenprinting with Candice Corgan
Foyer, 1st floor
Book Signing • 10:30–11:30 a.m.
Rori
Left Bank Books table, 2nd floor
Panel • 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Ink & Drink 15-Year Anniversary Panel
Ballroom, 5th floor

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Workshop • 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Create Your Own Reading Journal with Central Print
Workshop Room, 1st floor
Book Signing • 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Karenza Sparks
Betty’s Books table, 2nd floor
Activity • 12–5 p.m.
Clickety Clack Typewriters Demo
Foyer, 1st floor
Special Guest Lecture • 12:30–1:30 p.m.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Magic Fish with Trung Le Nguyen
Ballroom, 5th floor
Special Guest Lecture • 12:30–1:30 p.m.
Daily Comics Changed My Life with Rori
Workshop Room, 1st floor
Book Signing • 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Trung Le Nguyen
Left Bank Books table, 2nd floor

Special Guest Lecture • 2–3 p.m.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Flip with Ngozi Ukazu
Ballroom, 5th floor
Workshop • 2–3 p.m.
Bilingual Zines with David Velasco
Workshop Room, 1st floor
Book Signing • 3–4 p.m.
Ngozi Ukazu
Betty’s Books table, 2nd floor
Panel Discussion • 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Science and Curiosity with Karenza Sparks, J. Marshall Smith, and Blue Delliquanti
Ballroom, 5th floor
Workshop • 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Top 10 Accounting Tips for Artists
with the VLAA
Workshop Room, 1st floor

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Parking
Parking is available at the Fox Theatre lot and the Fox Theatre parking garage on Washington Boulevard, and at meters along Washington, Olive Street and North Spring Ave. See our website for a map of additional parking options.
Food & Drink
11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. • The Sheldon Bar, 2nd floor
12–3 p.m. • Blues Fired Pizza Truck, sidewalk
COVID safety at SLICE
Masks are strongly encouraged at SLICE! Free N95 or KN95 masks and hand sanitizer are available at the entrance, the info booth, and the SLICE table inside the expo hall. The expo hall is equipped with HVAC filtration that meets CDC ventilation guidelines and two HEPA air scrubbers purifying the air.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 16h

I don't think my father, the inventor of [redacted pastry with fruit filling] would be too pleased to hear about this...

alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 16h

is the allegedly confusing crustless sandwich packaging in the room with us now

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 13h

Oh it’s #portfolioday!

Hi there 👋

I’m an Edinburgh-based illustrator. I love nautical themes, birds and bookish things. I work in Procreate but love a textured analogue feel.

Here’s my website with more info and prints available for purchase spyglassillustration.com

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13h

It's very interesting how it completely avoids engaging with the claim that ChatGPT has resulted in mental health issues in people who previously had none, instead framing it like 'we've solved the issue for THOSE people with issues, but since you're not like them, you deserve the 'good stuff'

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 16h

It’s #PortfolioDay! I’m a multidisciplinary artist whose visual work is #SciArt #symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery. I’m also a writer and composer.

If you’d like to support what I do, you can tip me on ko-fi ko-fi.com/lia_pas

Stars within, stars without (2017). Face detial . An embroidery on ochre linen. There is the outline of a head and neck. There are blue filigree lines coming from the sides of the head outline towards the centre of the face. A fine off white line outlines the head and moves down the neck and out along the arms. On the centre chest is a cluster of off-white crosses and a few sparse crosses are around the head and shoulders as well.

woman in skull (2016)

An embroidery on bone coloured linen of the inside of a human skull looking down from a cut open top done in thin black thread. The textures make it look like the Vesalius woodcut it is based on. In the bottom left corner of the skull there is the tiny silhouette of a woman done in bronze thread.

Autumnal Mitosis Sampler (2024)

Two cells dividing embroidered on off white linen. A circle of brown stem stitch is the cell membrane, the corona radiata is in bright orangey yellow zig zag chain stitch. The edges of the dividing cells are in bright orange split stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in bright yellow bullion stitch. The cytoplasm is stitched in variegated orange/brown thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch.

thrum (2016)

An embroidery on off-white linen. A thyroid cartilage is stitched in thick black thread like a woodcut. Below it the word “thrum” is stitched in ochre thread in a type-like font. To the bottom right the initials L.P. are stitched in thin thread the same colour as the linen.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 13h

Hi: I'm Jodie and I letter comics for basically every publisher. Said books notably include a bunch of Star Trek for IDW and the upcoming volume 2 of Galaxy for DC. Also pretty much anything @cerealpancake.bsky.social or @charliestickney.bsky.social ask me to do. longtalljodie.com #portfolioday

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 13h

Hi #Portfolioday ! I'm Vash, a concept artist and comic illustrator, with a healthy obsession for ttrpgs, scifi and weird fantasy!

✨ vashtaylor.squarespace.com

A comic page picked out in blues and reds. Its dark and foreboding. A girl sits by a campfire. She begins to cry

concept art for ambrosia sky - Dalia lays gerald to rest.

The musician Tamino, painted in blocky, muted colours

three witches stand around a cauldron, a noxious mist surrounds them. They're dressed in ornate clothing. The forest around them bares the grim evidence of their passing.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13h

I want to hug the grumpy mug the most!

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14h

Drew: The Man Behind The Poster (2013) is a really nice watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXQ...

Drew The Man Behind The Poster 2013 1080p

YouTube video by marcio luiz del nino

www.youtube.com

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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, are you a camberville-area marching band musician? RSVP on gigomatic! www.gig-o-matic.com/gig/9609/

Gig-o-Matic | Login

www.gig-o-matic.com

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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 4d

We’re firing up the HONK Bike Bus again, on Halloween morn!

We need volunteers! If you’re local to #CambMa, click thru if you can tote a musician, lend a cargobike, help out with publicity or marshaling or whatever! Or just come out the morning of and cheer us on!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13h

"but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing"

"don't worry, we're not just trying to keep you hooked on our product, we def wouldn't do that!"

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 13h

#Etchtober Day 14

Today's prompt: "3 creatures in a trench coat who are DEFINITELY not up to something," requested by @spazzyhilo.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jhl...

Pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing: A tall, leaning figure wearing a trench coat with a cat's head at the top, floppy sleeves, a snout poking out in the center, and a pig on all fours visible at the bottom, stands at the corner of a bar with a bottle and a tumbler.

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Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social · 17h

👋 I'm Mark Hoffmann. I love writing & illustrating silly & cute books. Interested in picture books, board books, middle grade & kids' editorial

I'm rep'd by @literaticat.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

🎨: www.studiohoffmann.com

#PortfolioDay #KidLitArt #KidLitlllustration
#illustration

A selection of 4 collage illustrations by Mark Hoffmann:

A wolf sneaking into a castle;
School kids getting off the bus and entering a school full of dinosaurs;
A soccer referee blowing a whistle;
A town of mice wearing pants

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 14h

In my new comic, I mention how this keeps happening to lawyers looking for shortcuts and I've been trying to figure out which case I wanted to cite in my sources as a reference...

This is it, this is the one.

404 Media @404media.co · 17h

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 14h

Is this the first time the twist (and quite frankly, jump scare) came before M. Night Shyamalan's name in the credits?

Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 14h

“It’s about a beach that gives Gena Rowlands dementia.”

*publishing executive slams fist down on mahogany table*

“SOLD”

It’s the cover of “Remain,” a “supernatural love story” co-written by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shaymalan

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Lesly Julien @leswrite.bsky.social · 18h

Another #portfolioday Perceive me. Hire me. Collab with me.

Lesly Julien @leswrite.bsky.social · Jan 9

Hey #portfolioday avert your gaze from the fading star blinking toward oblivion.

It's me, Lesly Julien 🇭🇹 comic writer of stories like Savage Wizard, Headcases, Ghost Gauntlet and others.

If you want something written consider hiring me

Contact info in my bio.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 15h

very good frog friends

Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · 15h

Today’s haul to the kiln 🐸🔥
#frogart #ceramics

A group of colorful ceramic frog sculptures of different sizes, including a mug.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 15h

Man, I’m working with some doctors, research scientists, and coordinators on a project — being the person making the art in this group is truly a joy — they get so excited over sketches!

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 15h

I love this so much! This is also one of my favorite things, getting to work with people who are curious about the world through their science while you are curious about the world through your art.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 15h

Whenever I table at something, I have at least one person come up to me and go "oh my god, it's pronounced ZEEN???" when they see the name of one of my comics, Fried Zine Tomato. And I get it, it's not like magazines are ubiquitous anymore.