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Alexandra Gallant-Lee

@alexandragallant.com
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Ali “with an i” Nature & Science Illustrator, Multi Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Sculptor, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston AlexandraGallant.com frogby.bigcartel.com/ Alexandragallant.itch.io

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Cartoon Studies @cartoonstudies.bsky.social · 3h
Join us at TWIST 2026: TWIn STate Comics & Zine Fair this Friday, October 2nd, from 4-8pm at Junction Arts Media in White River Junction, Vermont!!
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/03/2025
This made me realize what the original inspiration for Frogby really is...
A screenshot of Number Munchers, an old computer game, showing a grid with numbers, some of which are multiples of 5, there are various monsters and a lil green dude on the screen. 

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the froggy page, website (1997) web.archive.org/web/19970529...
header, scrawled: the froggy page
beneath, the hand drawn graphic of a frog in mid jump, ribbiting.
text:
(hyperlink) ribbit! (normal text) welcome to the froggy page! this corner of the net is home to all kinds of virtual frogginess, from the silly to the scientific. check out the menu below to find more frog fun.
(below, graphic hyperlinks, featuring a frog doing various things (or just frog themed graphics) such as reading frog news, reading a book, singing, sitting at a computer).
text hyperlinks below.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 27/09/2026
Just hanging out at the pond
Felted creatures - two frogs and a bird, one of the frogs has spiky “hair” sticking straight up and they’re all on a lilypad
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Sam "The Patron Saint of Weirdos" Posnick @samposnick.com · 29/09/2026
You could do so many cool things with this...
Collage of abstract images with black and white swirls, woman with flowers on face, and control panel in corner.
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Sam "The Patron Saint of Weirdos" Posnick @samposnick.com · 29/09/2026
It's easy to forget that people are still making cool internet things, but here's one! Pretty neat!
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 06/01/2025
Making a lil swan for a treat (practicing sculpting with model magic)
A tin foil swan shape covered with white air dry clayFurther progress on the swan, totally covered with clay and the semblance of a wing
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 18/09/2026
Just updated the shop with a few frogs! I'll be adding some more throughout the day, but there are a few new little felted treasures up there for you to take a look at! frogby.bigcartel.com
Handmade needlefelted sculptures of goofy little frogs

Confident Little Frogby, $40 - a stout little frog with a confident stance, next to a mini comic and a mini-mini comic called Frog by Day, Frog by Night

Jealous Little Frogby - $35 - a green eyed little frog next to the same comics

Curious Little Frogby - $40 - a goofy little frog that looks like it is posing a question
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last session of Mule Summer School comin' in hot with @monteiro.bsky.social & @erikahall.bsky.social this Friday! Having been down in the grant-writing mines this past week, I keep thinking about the pep talks I've already internalized from these two. Invaluable. www.eventbrite.com/e/self-promo...
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
how i answer that question in the book is that a lot of forces (austerity, white supremacy, the housing crisis, etc) are making our lives a struggle materially, while ALSO giving us "you don't owe anyone anything" brainworms right while we need each other most.
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The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?
Why is it hard to make and keep friends as an adult? Even if you finally find time to see each other, can you connect more deeply than just catching up over coffee? How many do you count as ride-or-di...
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
Went to an alpaca farm today and got to see alpacas plus I got so much new roving for my little felted frogs and creatures, very excited, it is so buttery and lovely.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
Just having a good time!
Just having a good time!

Two frogs dancing
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
I’ve been on the hunt for some vintage postcards with frogs on them for the Frogby Mail Club and have stumbled upon this delightful website from 2003, Michele, you legend. michelesworld.net/dmm2/frog/se...
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Frog Postcards in Series I
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 27/09/2026
Just hanging out at the pond
Felted creatures - two frogs and a bird, one of the frogs has spiky “hair” sticking straight up and they’re all on a lilypad
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
Discovered that the person behind the workshop has a website with no actual content on it (every link in the menu is a placeholder #) but it does link to her Etsy shop where she’s selling mother daughter locket sets and crystals.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
Went to an alpaca farm today and got to see alpacas plus I got so much new roving for my little felted frogs and creatures, very excited, it is so buttery and lovely.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
I’ve been on the hunt for some vintage postcards with frogs on them for the Frogby Mail Club and have stumbled upon this delightful website from 2003, Michele, you legend. michelesworld.net/dmm2/frog/se...
michelesworld.net
Frog Postcards in Series I
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
9/24/26
Nancy is admiring Tattoo Flash in the window of a Tattoo Parlor. She points out that she wants the <3 Mom tattoo flash, but that it should say Aunt instead.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 25/09/2026
After making many, many frogs, I am branching out to my first attempts at a needle felted bird - I am really enjoying playing with the colors of the wings as I build them out.
A pink and orange felted bird in progress on a brick ledge on a sunny day Another view of the needle felted pink and orange bird
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/09/2026
Discovered that the person behind the workshop has a website with no actual content on it (every link in the menu is a placeholder #) but it does link to her Etsy shop where she’s selling mother daughter locket sets and crystals.
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Maria Varmazis @varmaz.is · 25/09/2026
I did it! Here's my new blog: mariamakesamess.com It's a static site, and I used Hugo to build it. It is extremely lo-fi and I am glad to keep it that way.
mariamakesamess.com
Welcome to Maria Makes a Mess
Things Maria is making, in various forms, not terribly well.
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✨🐸 figmentpudding 🐸✨ (Pam Poovey Aspirant) @figmentpudding.com · 25/09/2026
Maybe someone is interested in a blanket? These are $175 with shipping included, or I can do custom colors (within the constraints of the yarn options) for $200. The fourth on is just hanging sideways. They’re all approximately 4’x6’
A ripply crocheted blanket hanging in a doorway
Gray, sage green and pink stripes
A ripply crocheted blanket hanging in a doorway
Cream, dark green and pink stripesA ripply crocheted blanket hanging in a doorway
Blue, white, dark blue and black stripesA ripply crocheted blanket hanging in a doorway
Brown, orange and yellow stripes
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 25/09/2026
After making many, many frogs, I am branching out to my first attempts at a needle felted bird - I am really enjoying playing with the colors of the wings as I build them out.
A pink and orange felted bird in progress on a brick ledge on a sunny day Another view of the needle felted pink and orange bird
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are no guarantees with jobs right now, especially with the mass adoption of AI tools by many companies. Everyone is worried about being fired, laid off or losing a steady freelance gig at any time. Applying to jobs for months or a year-plus. Ghost job listings. Full return to the office.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 07/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, if you want to read about how Elizabeth Holmes used identity, image, style and aesthetic to further her scams before you watch her clearly trying it again, have I got something for you!
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 25/09/2026
I don’t ever bother with “best of“ lists because everybody knows those are for fools. We should only ever operate such things in the parlance of the video store, a recommendation via a single shelf with a tiny “So and So’s Picks” card. That’s it.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ohhh the edward gorey house is doing an exhibit on his lettering right now, i would so love to see that
edwardgoreyhouse.org
O Sordid Type — The Edward Gorey House
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have notes. (1) Why dress up a PR release as an interview? Why take any of this at face value when there’s so much to dig into? (2) Related: “WHY AREN’T THERE MORE GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS” should immediately disqualify you from conducting any kind of comics-related “interview.”
Screencap from “Novvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI Assistance” by Ed Nawotka for Publishers Weekly, accessed 9/23/2026. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/101260-novvel-co-pioneers-producing-graphic-novels-with-ai-assistance.html


We came together around the question of how to make reading exciting again in a world of declining attention spans. We spent a lot of time talking to teachers and parents, and looked at literacy data, which shows the biggest drop in reading tends to happen right around the grade level when kids are also getting their first phones, typically middle school.

We landed on the hypothesis that a graphic novel is the ideal format to bring people back to reading, not just reluctant readers.

[Question] Why isn't there more graphic-novel content already, if the format works so well?

[Answer] Production is expensive and slow. The average production cost of a graphic novel runs somewhere between $20,000 and $50,000, and it typically takes 12 to 18 months. Most small publishers and authors don't have that kind of capital to spend on a bet, and even large publishers that do have it have to be very selective about what they commit it to.

[Question] Walk me through what the platform actually does.

[Answer] You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60-70% of a finished product.

Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely Al-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23/09/2026
Just found out my part-time job extended my dates through the end of the year, so happy about that, also can’t believe I’ve been working with them since May already.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 07/09/2026
I still can't fucking believe this documentary is a thing. When I was making my comic, I got so tired of knowing about her, but I did think to myself 'doesn't seem like she's made a play for redemption yet, but maybe that's just because she's in prison', jokes on me, of course the scam continues.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
v random but do any of you do oil painting commissions/know someone who does
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 22/09/2026
Frogby is brimming with confidence
frogby.bigcartel.com
Confident Little Frogby
This felted friend has been handcrafted just for you. Each Felted Frogby comes with a mini-comic for you and a mini-mini comic for Frogby. One of a kind. Materials: Core wool, Corriedale wool roving W...
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23/09/2026
Just found out my part-time job extended my dates through the end of the year, so happy about that, also can’t believe I’ve been working with them since May already.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 22/09/2026
Happy fall equine, ON-X
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Academic friends: I have a delightful honors student who is hoping to produce a zine as an accompaniment to their thesis on transmasculine concepts in early modern drama. Do you have any good examples of academic arguments adapted to zines or other public-facing, DIY formats?
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 22/09/2026
Frogby is brimming with confidence
frogby.bigcartel.com
Confident Little Frogby
This felted friend has been handcrafted just for you. Each Felted Frogby comes with a mini-comic for you and a mini-mini comic for Frogby. One of a kind. Materials: Core wool, Corriedale wool roving W...
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is the LAST DAY to score 30% off a Ravenous subscription *and* help us bring some more freelance writers into the mix to do even more of the best food journalism on the internet
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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 21/09/2026
Zounds shirts and hoodies available now! Shirt: sam-spv-shop.fourthwall.com/products/zou... Hoodie: sam-spv-shop.fourthwall.com/products/zou...
Image of a dark green hoodie and a black shirt with an orange cat on both, with a peach color background. There is a scroll with red letters on the top saying "Available for one week only!"
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey, everybody! This weekend is @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social and I'm thrilled to say I'll be there with a ton of other amazing creators! If you're gonna be there, please stop by and say hello! I'll be at Booth 318! baltimorecomiccon.com/guest/matthe...
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Matthew Dow Smith - Baltimore Comic-Con
Matthew Dow Smith is a writer and comic book artist whose work has appeared in DC’s Starman and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, among many other titles. He is the writer/artist of the middle grade graphic nov...
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Noises for Physical Media Perverts: Vol. 2
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 22/09/2026
I will be at this next month!
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 19/09/2026
Each of the frogs comes with a little felt lily pad now, too 🐸
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 21/09/2026
I had some extra air dry clay lying around and remembered your suggestion
A little felted frog that looks like it’s got its hand to its mouth going “oh pardon me” because it just sat on a little air dry clay whoopee cushionThe whoopee cushion made of air dry clay
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 21/09/2026
Curious Little Frogby is mostly curious about why someone left a whoopee cushion lying around.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 21/09/2026
This was the month we all discovered Maya and 3D Studio Max, the next month, we started leaning more into grunge brushes on top of this stuff.
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YUK FUN @yukfunwow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new catty washi tape now up on the webshop woo
Photo of strips of colourful illustrated washi tape on a white card. The washi tape features drawings of cat faces and cats doing things like stretching or sleeping.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
The intricacies of the wings are kind of fascinating
Close up to show the tiny lacy pattern on the mantis wings.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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