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Alexandra Gallant-Lee
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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 · 9h
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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Two left!
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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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 · 23d
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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Attention visual journalists: I’m always open to pitches for @sciam.bsky.social’s Graphic Science column. The column tells concise stories on topics in science via graphics (dataviz, illustrated diagrams, comic-style explainers, etc). It appears in both print & online. DM me for a pitch guide.
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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American Girl has released a "Modern era" reimagining of some of their original historical era dolls and I hate them so much.
"Modern era" American Girl doll reimaginings of their original historical characters. They're ugly and I hate them.
February 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Also, today is a great day to buy some comics, I say, as I start planning my trip to Chicago

Print: www.radiatorcomics.com/creator/alex...

Digital: alexandragallant.itch.io
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Oooh, just found out I got into CAKE this year! I've never been to Chicago before either, I'm very excited.
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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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"
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Just four copies of this one left!
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23d
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 1:18 AM
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Two more panels from a new comic I'm working on called Marionette, about the life and times of a child star, from her rise to her fall to her comeback, everyone wants a piece of Marionette. Having a lot of fun drawing this one, using it as an excuse to draw all the ads and magazine pages I want.
Marionette is Perfume - illustration of a perfume bottle with a perfume called 'Marionette's Strings - eau de parfum' A fake movie poster "She's got her eggs and her pancakes, too!" There's a woman with pink/red hair and green skin, wearing a dark blue robe and pink underwear. The time on the clock reads 6am. There are pancakes and an egg falling around the woman. "So vulnerable." "This is acting" "Marionette is... The Saddest & Loneliest" The whole poster is a reference to the Jewel song "You Were Meant For Me" as a joke (It's 6 am, I hear the clock, it's 6 a.m. I feel so far from where I've been I got my eggs, I got my pancakes too I got my maple syrup, everything but you)
December 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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2 years later, this is coming together as my next comic - called Marionette, and it is the hardest thing I've ever made and also the most personal, started out with a vision to be about 80 pages til I went on a tear this winter and just starting making the thing, it's almost up to 200 pages already
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Mar 21
I’ve been working on an experimental comic about the exploitation of children in furtherance of celebrity, film and wealth, some of it based on my own experiences with a stage mother and child acting. I’m going to try to watch Quiet on Set, but I just know it’s gonna be a gut punch.
January 27, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Just four copies of this one left!
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23d
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 1:18 AM
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Do you hate how AI is being shoved at us at every turn? Do you want to feel inspired to make stuff with your own brain? Have I got something for you! My award-winning comic, BRAINS, is available in print now, a love letter to the joys of thinking and perceiving and BEING a human in the world.
Brains | Radiator Comics
Radiator Comics distributes, produces, and promotes hand-made, self-published and small-press comics that focus on self-expression and storytelling. At the core of our mission is a commitment to incre...
www.radiatorcomics.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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I forgot I made this comic about it!
One of the stranger days at work involved me being inside one of the original Drinker iron lungs. I was inside the lung for about five minutes while it “breathed” for me. It was a surreal experience. It wasn’t uncomfortable at all, it was the opposite, actually, it was very relaxing. The air pressure felt like it was giving me a full body massage, being inside just made me very thankful for the polio vaccine. “So this is the Drinker Iron Lung, the first model off the assembly line in Cambridge”
October 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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May I offer AN COMIC about science? Specifically, the three known interstellar visitors to our Solar System and why they're interesting? (Words by me, art by @makinaro.com ) www.snexplores.org/article/inte...
Interstellar objects: Visitors from other stars! [COMIC]
Only three interstellar objects have ever been spotted. Here’s what we know about them and why they’re so cool.
www.snexplores.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about a second print run of these, I can't believe it. I think I will probably try to do an updated cover and then maybe blurbs on the back? Guess it's time to rustle up a few blurbs.

Also thank you to everybody who has bought a copy of my comic already 🥹
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23d
Very excited to tell you that you can now order a PRINT copy of my comic, BRAINS, about the beauty of thinking and perceiving, a love letter to the brain and my absolute rejection of so-called AI. I love brains, I just think they're neat.

Now available for $15 from @radiatorcomics.bsky.social
Brains | Radiator Comics
Radiator Comics distributes, produces, and promotes hand-made, self-published and small-press comics that focus on self-expression and storytelling. At the core of our mission is a commitment to incre...
www.radiatorcomics.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Rosemary says EAT THE RICH!

sticker available: mcapriglione.art
Preview of a sticker of a cartoon gray stripey cat crunching on food. The food bowl says "the rich"
February 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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You can also support my work here:

buy print comics: www.radiatorcomics.com/creator/alex...

buy digital comics: alexandragallant.itch.io

kofi: ko-fi.com/frogby
colored pencil drawing of a frog saying thank you
February 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Thank you to everyone who grabbed a copy of BRAINS already, I really appreciate the support for and response to it so much. I made it out of spite after I just got so annoyed at seeing this garbage over and over about how this "AI" stuff could 'elevate our cognition' by having us...think less??? No.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 16d
Do you hate how AI is being shoved at us at every turn? Do you want to feel inspired to make stuff with your own brain? Have I got something for you! My award-winning comic, BRAINS, is available in print now, a love letter to the joys of thinking and perceiving and BEING a human in the world.
Brains | Radiator Comics
Radiator Comics distributes, produces, and promotes hand-made, self-published and small-press comics that focus on self-expression and storytelling. At the core of our mission is a commitment to incre...
www.radiatorcomics.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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I've just reviewed my 51st Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?
February 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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my new album comes out soon and here’s the glorious art by @roberthack.bsky.social
drawing of jackie kashian boxing-based on Pogues cover. one fist says alter, the other (with extra fingers) says kashian. spooky reading girl image on shorts
February 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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For #ThingThursday wot I got today is a 100-yr-old theater program on display in our lobby. What's notable is 1. it's a popular Prohibition comedy by Don Marquis, creator of archy and mehitabel, and 2. appearing as Clem Jr is one Busby Berkeley, working here on his way up to Hollywood spectaculars
I do not possess the thumb power on my phone to type out all of the text on this piece of paper tacked inside a shadowbox display case, but the salient facts are that on the week of September 15, 1924, the Somerville Players presented Don Marquis' "The Old Soak" starring Frank Thomas as Clem Rawley, The Old Soak; Jane Stuart as Matilda his wife; Mary Ann Dentley as Lucy their daughter; and Busby Berkeley as Clem Jr. Also appearing on this program are ads for the Mityfine Food Shop "where you get those good home-made things to eat" and Ginsberg's Hardware Store at 25-27 Holland Street, which is the site that later became Johnny D's nightclub and Rockin' Bob's music shop. Now it's an apartment building with poke shop on the first floor.
February 6, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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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 · 23d
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
alexandragallant.com
I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about a second print run of these, I can't believe it. I think I will probably try to do an updated cover and then maybe blurbs on the back? Guess it's time to rustle up a few blurbs.

Also thank you to everybody who has bought a copy of my comic already 🥹
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23d
Very excited to tell you that you can now order a PRINT copy of my comic, BRAINS, about the beauty of thinking and perceiving, a love letter to the brain and my absolute rejection of so-called AI. I love brains, I just think they're neat.

Now available for $15 from @radiatorcomics.bsky.social
Brains | Radiator Comics
Radiator Comics distributes, produces, and promotes hand-made, self-published and small-press comics that focus on self-expression and storytelling. At the core of our mission is a commitment to incre...
www.radiatorcomics.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM