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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 · 3d
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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can't quite process this
mollyknight.bsky.social Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2h
This is Melrose Ave right now in between La Brea and Fairfax. Never seen any flooding here like this in my life.
February 16, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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This is Melrose Ave right now in between La Brea and Fairfax. Never seen any flooding here like this in my life.
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Making a zine of old website designs. Turning them into new art pieces, in a way, because I am combining elements from different layouts. This is the spiritual successor to my Iconic zine with a bunch of my old LiveJournal icons. Hope to have it done this week so I can bring some with me to xoxo.
A page of a zine I am working on - it is an InDesign file with the toolbar visible. There are two distinct layouts - one is grungy and features several photos of Mandy Moore, mostly in black and white and the links “info” “artwork” and “links” and the second features red chairs, an alarm clock and a floor lamp on a beige background with a few pale circles patterned across it.
August 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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the thing about "i want to make comics" is that you have to start by making comics. it feels daunting because you want to make GOOD comics

but like

if i wanted to whittle i would not expect my first piece to be a beautiful toad king. i'd go fuck up some wood. you gotta go fuck up some comics
February 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Do you miss livejournal?
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Mar 21
You can snag a download of my zine 'Iconic' for $3 on @itch.io - it has a bunch of old Livejournal icons I made 20 years ago, plus short essays and thoughts on design, trends and pop culture from the time.
Iconic by Alexandra Gallant-Lee
A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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You can snag a download of my zine 'Iconic' for $3 on @itch.io - it has a bunch of old Livejournal icons I made 20 years ago, plus short essays and thoughts on design, trends and pop culture from the time.
Iconic by Alexandra Gallant-Lee
A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s.
alexandragallant.itch.io
March 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The introduction to BRAINS
Lately I have been thinking about brains more than usual - and usually in the context of so-called 'artificial intelligence' and how so much of the marketing for it seems to be predicated upon the idea that it would be a welcome thing to think less, know less, do less for ourselves and that somehow is supposed to make us be more... productive? creative? analytical? how? How can doing less of these things ever result in us being more of any of them? When people I know bring up ChatGPT to me, I often ask them if they've ever engaged with it on a topic they know forwards and backwards and mostly the answer is "no" and the reaction is "why would I ask it about something I already know?" My response is... when you realize how inaccurate it is about something you know highly accurately, then you can extrapolate that to any other way in which you engage with it. It is creating a plausible response. Not an accurate one. A plausible one. It doesn't offer you an answer, just an answer shaped box. And it's up to you to open the box and see if what you need is inside or if it is a box full of spiders. Now if it's a subject you don't know much about, you might not even realize it's a box of spiders. Here you are, walking around with a box of spiders, when what you really needed was directions to the nearest hospital. Well now you need those directions anyways because of those spiders just bit you. Just don't do it! (illustration of a pink little frog next to 'a box of spiders' and a note about how this is frogby, he's playing the part of a blood cell that has a big crush on the brain)"
February 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Unrelated I've been losing my mind at this figure skating videographer for a day now. www.instagram.com/reel/DUxzy9k...
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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pixivisionさんでこちらのイラストをご紹介いただきました。
#illustration
本棚の前で本を読んでいる人物のイラスト/Illustration of a person reading a book in front of a bookshelf
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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"Do you know what it's like to be inside an iron lung? I do."

I redesigned the science communications page on my website in a somewhat... unique way, you might say. I also wrote a little essay about my experience inside an iron lung.

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Me, inside an iron lung
February 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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It is important to mention that Edmonia Lewis's father was Haitian. 🇭🇹

Looking forward to seeing the PEM exhibit.

#ArtSky #BlackSky #Haiti #BHM

www.haiti.org/dt_team/edmo...
February 16, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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It happened again
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Mar 26
Every time someone discovers my very long but unfinished fanfic and is clearly just plowing right through it and leaving me kudos and lil comments like the gem of a person they are, I'm just like

please

forgive me

I'M SORRY, I'LL FINISH IT ONE DAY, I PROMISE.
February 16, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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#BREAKING: Police are responding to Lynch Arena in Pawtucket for reports of multiple people being shot, Target 12 has confirmed. We'll have more details as this story develops: ⤵️
Multiple people shot at Pawtucket ice skating rink
Multiple people have been injured after a shooting at Dennis M Lynch Arena in Pawtucket Monday afternoon.
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February 16, 2026 at 7:48 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
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 27d
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 14, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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One sale away from 200 sales in my itch shop, thank you to everybody who has bought a zine or comic.

PS - If you buy one, you can share it with pals, it's a PDF, who will stop you? Not me! Get a comic, snag a zine, share with a friend, two people get to read it for the price of one, what a deal!
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February 16, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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Soft-launching this today, because Michaels has some exceptionally good weekend coupons -

Help me rebuild the arts & crafts room at Park Slope Women's Shelter! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163
Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter
The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...
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February 16, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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"Do you know what it's like to be inside an iron lung? I do."

I redesigned the science communications page on my website in a somewhat... unique way, you might say. I also wrote a little essay about my experience inside an iron lung.

alexandragallant.com/communicatio...
Me, inside an iron lung
February 16, 2026 at 8:02 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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I would like to be the person at the Olympics that sticks the little evergreen sprigs into the ski jump hill.
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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It's the end of the Year of the Snake 🐍 💖

#illustration
#lunarNewYear
Illustration of a snake with chrysanthemum patterns along its scales, with petals blooming around its neck
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Running for the train
banditelli.org Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d
Ok back to older-than-10 minutes baby seal content before I hit the road again.

Need a ruling on this 10 meter blob scoot(scootle?).

Mama is CLEARLY THROWING here, but the rules are the rules? Baby wins? @sickoscommittee.org 🦑 🦭
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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One of the things I loved when I was growing up was how there were so many things that went into *how* things worked, like behind the scenes in various ways including literally behind the scenes of music videos with Making the Video. I could not get enough of things like that. I still can't.
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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Er. Started a blog (paywalled because, frankly, wanting to see my creative innards all over the place is a niche fetish).

Head over to ko-fi if you nasty and want to know about my process.
the bake-off breakdown meme. But make it about blogs.
February 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
andrewstraw.bsky.social Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · Dec 6
Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!

preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵

Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/9
February 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Why was my brain like "oh good, they're standing behind the yellow line, they can board the train in a minute"
banditelli.org Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16h
Bonus seal cuteness, featuring my previous bestie.
a arbor seal pup touching the side of their face to an adult
February 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM