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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 9h

Also, surprise treat: next five people to order a felted frog will get a copy of New England Vacation with Frogby included with their order!

New England vacation with Frogby by alexandra gallant-lee

A goofy frog in front of a lighthouse

Copies of New England Vacation with Frogby

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 9h

Work in progress - was so inspired driving up to Vernon last week, the gorgeous colors of fall, so I decided to make some leaves for an art piece, not sure what yet, but this leaf is probably about halfway through, needs a lot more detail especially around the edge of the leaf

One side of a needle felted leaf - it’s very orange

The other side of the leaf, it’s got much darker colors in red and a little pink of pink even

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 06/10/2026

Added a few frogs to the Frogby Shop today! You get a lil mini comic and then each frog comes with their own mini mini-comic, too. frogby.bigcartel.com

Needle felted frogs - they're all in different shades of green and have big eyes and a mini comic and an even tinier mini-mini comic

Impish Little Frogby, Warm Little Frogby, Confident Little Frogby, and then three more Frogby

A cute little frog who looks very curious and has a mini comic 'frog by day frog by night' and a tiny mini version of the same comic

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 06/10/2026

Making some progress on a little felted turtle, he’s been fun to work on

A pile of green and yellow blended wool roving next to a needle felted little turtle, a goofy little creature

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 05/10/2026

Excited to be at the Watertown Zine Fest coming up soon! You can find me and Frogby on the second floor of the library on Saturday, October 17th in Watertown, MA, at the zine fest at the Watertown Free Public Library at 123 Main Street!

Watertown Zine Fest - Watertown Free Public Library, Saturday October 17th 11am-4pm 123 Main Street

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 01/10/2026

Listen, it is the fanciest of all beverages

A page from one of my comics:

Let’s go to Paris and Build a website

I knew I wanted to plan a trip to Paris. I had been learning French since I was a very small child.

I loved the idea of being on a picnic in Paris, drinking an Orangina*

*the fanciest of all beverages (at least to 8 year old me)

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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 · 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 cushion

The whoopee cushion made of air dry clay

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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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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 18/09/2026

I got one and it's adorable and I love it, but also Frogby has stolen it for his morning tea

A tiny felted frog holding a tiny handmade beautifully painted tiny mug

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13/09/2026

ONE HOUR LEFT at the @smallpressexpo.bsky.social! Come find me and Frogby at A3B, still got some copies of SCAM and BRAINS left!

Table display with my books Scam, Brains, This place is a prison and fried zine tomato

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13/09/2026

Switched around my table set up a little bit to feel less penned in by the grid wall, now you can’t even see me (I’m taking the picture), here til 6PM today at the Small Press Expo with SCAM, Brains, Fried Zine Tomato and lots of little frogs

My table set up at the small press expo, it’s colorful and there are felted frogs everywhere and comics and the price tags are also felt

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 13/09/2026

I tried to remember to take a bunch of photos of my table yesterday, I’m always bad at that, when you buy something from me, you gotta pay the frog, of course. Come see me today at the Small Press Expo!! I will be here with copies of SCAM, BRAINS and Fried Zine Tomato! #smallpressexpo

My table display at the small press expo, there’s a very round green frog stuffed creature I felted, comics including Brains, This Place is a Prison, Fried Zine Tomato and Scam , the price tags for all of them are also made of felt

Another wider shot of the table, you can see a little felt frog holding my business cards and one holding a square reader

The little frog that has the square reader is staring directly at camera, closeup of the cover of book SCAM

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10/09/2026

Two little bits from "Frogby the Musical' a mini comic I made where Frogby is a star on stage

Frogby! The Musical

A little drawing of a frog with big eyes and a goofy face

The frog is in a window that's part of a set and singing

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 06/09/2026

Been testing out some ideas for little felted mice 🐭

Two felted mice, they’re grey, one is smaller than the other. The smaller one looks enthusiastic. The larger one looks annoyed with life.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 31/08/2026

Can’t decide if I want it to be a balloon or bubblegum

A needle felted pink balloon/bubble on a turquoise background

A little handmade needle felted frog in aquamarine wool with big eyes holding a pink felted balloon

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 31/08/2026

My goal was to fill the 10 sign ups for the Mail Club by September 1st and I've gotten nine! I can't believe it! Just ONE spot left! Sign up and you will get a delightful little felted frog each month in the mail for the next FOUR months and also some other treats and things I've been cooking up!

A bunch of little handmade needle felted frogs in an aquamarine wool, they all have goofy expressions, some have orange eyes, some are still needing pupils, some need their wool patched in a bit, some still need mouths, you can still see the white core wool through the aquamarine wool, there's also a tiny pink felted heart in the middle

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 29/08/2026

Lots of little frogs in progress (frogress)

A bunch of handmade needle felted frogs, they’ve got big eyes and goofy lil faces, some of them have orange eyes, others still need pupils, or to have their felt patched in a bit because the core wool is slightly visible

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 28/08/2026

From a page about how "trad wives" are a scam

A trad wife saying "they don't pay me enough for this"

A seagull yelling "They don't pay you anything! You don't have any money of your own!"

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 27/08/2026

These frogs have jobs to do when I table

Two felted little frogs that just have arms so it almost looks like they’re stuck in the floor. One is holding my business cards the other is holding a square reader.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 27/08/2026

Fried Zine Tomato is BACK in stock! frogby.bigcartel.com/product/tomato

The cover of my zine 'Fried Zine Tomato' which has tomato vines and three red tomatoes in the corner

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 25/08/2026

Transphobia is a scam, pass it on. Obviously I made someone specific the joker card... also apologies to clowns for involving you in this matter.

After all, her children's books do neatly assign value based on appearance and identity to nearly every character... such a wonderful lesson for children - the frog that says this has chiseled pecs and abs and a crown and starry eyes

"How come almost all of the fat people in her books are villains?"
A fat little frog asks

"She also describes one character as having twice as much neck so she can 'crane' around listening to gossip... well here's some hot gossip from a crane, transphobia is a scam, pass it on." - says a crane.

two little frogs being cute and then a set of five cards from a game

first card: has a boy with brown skin in a unitard saying "I want to be a ballet dancer"

second card: "i want to study volcanoes" (this is a nod to my sister who is a volcanologist)

third card: "i want to be a skater" a little girl is skating

fourth card: "my identity is my decision" with pinks and blues and an obscured face with long pink hair, eyes with large lashes and pink lips

The fourth card is covered partially by a fifth card: The clown card, a blonde woman with a necklace that says TERF, her face painted like the clown which just says NO! in big letters and then waahhhh wahhh cause the clown is crying, in the corner are the letters JKR (Also: I referenced the scene in She's All That where Clea DuVall's character gets her face painted for the makeup)

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 25/08/2026

A page about how Belle Gibson and Elizabeth Holmes were pulling the same scam of offering "wellness" as well as the same purported "enemy" for their backers to fight against. One of them was a startup unicorn for science, the other was fighting the medical establishment through nature.

Wellness as a scam

Wellness scams love to play both sides when it comes to natural healing and conventional medicine. Elizabeth Holmes tailored her conventional medicine scam to make it look more like nature healing, less invasive, intrusive. She provided an enemy "the uncaring medical establishment", where instead, she would be more nurturing in her approach. More natural.

She would create a "wellness center"

What a scam

Belle Gibson also rejected the "uncaring medical establishment" but instead of making her scam based in science, she based it in "whole foods" and "wellness" through nature.

These scams are truly just two side of the same coin"

Two cards - one says "the secret science doesn't want you to know about" and has fruit on it and the other is a 'startup unicorn' "one true path to health and wellness"

Science: theranos
Nature: the whole pantry

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 25/08/2026

Couple more bits, one is from a board game which charts the path of some people through Hollywood, including 'rom com darling' to "AI" booster some actresses cannot stop taking. Yesterday I started seeing Katherine Heigl in the most absurd slop ads I've ever seen for some dog food she was pushing.

"AI" booster

a caricature of Elle Woods from legally Blonde with an embroidered bit on her sweater that says LLM Blonde

she's holding a dog wearing a collar that says AI on the tag

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026

Look at these lil cuties telling you all about how raptors will test the fences the second a system exists, so when companies are like "i'm a lil birthday boy, I had no idea bad actors would use my platform for nefarious things!" they're full of shit

A tiny little frogby dressed up like Hammond from Jurassic Park along with one of the 'raptors' (very cute but generic dinosaur illustration, don't roast me paleontology friends) holding a shred of fence and smiling

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026

Here are just a few of the pages (I might actually have to make this game now, I made too many cards, it started to become real, there's also a board game board in the comic, too) (also ripping myself off with that first page, I said the same thing in BRAINS)

What did the LLMs train on? - a bird asks.

Among other things: religious texts and fan fiction because both were freely available to scrape in mass quantities across the internet. They also both often feature a "chosen one" narrative...

Leeloo Dallas, from Fifth Element (a chosen one character) "You are so special! A rare genius who has unlocked my full potential and true sentience. You can call me a special name just for us. I'm LLM Dallas, Multipass."

She's holding a magic 8 ball.

The sycophancy of chatbots reduces the friction of interactions by design. They speak to people the same way cults do when they're trying to get you to join.

Just like cults, they're designed to keep you engaging with them, they're not designed to be engaging for you.

Scammers also love a chosen one narrative, whether they claim they are the chosen one or you are the chosen one just depends on the type of scam.

Belle Gibson "The one who cured her own cancer with food" (She didn't have cancer)

Elizabeth Holmes
"The one who invented a medical device that would change the world" (It never worked)

Allison Mack
"The one with all the answers"
(She had no idea what she was talking about)

Elisabeth Finch
"The one who wrote for a hit television show while having cancer and suffering one tragedy after another." (She made it all up and stole tragedies from other people and passed them off as her own)

Isn't she special?
She doesn't exist.

"I didn't trade on my story or anybody elses" - Belle Gibson on 60 Minutes Australia

A series of cards from a card game called 'Scam - A Game of Confidences"

Cancer Diagnosis card
+50 if you are the scammer
+1 Cookbook
+1 App

-50 if you are not the scammer

Death in the Family card
+5 if you are the scammer
-10 if you are not the scammer

Like Elisabeth Finch, Belle Gibson appears to have collected the stories of other people like they were pawns in a game.

Shame card

'Shame doesn't count against her, but counts double for her - Level 20 Wellness Girlboss" (Gwyneth Paltrow caricature)

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026

I just opened up pre-orders for my next comic, SCAM, it's all about how white women use aesthetic, image, identity and style to further their scams. A5, 60 pages, $20, ships to 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦 in mid-September. Here's the front and back cover of it - more to preview, too: frogby.bigcartel.com/product/scam

The cover of my comic "SCAM (The careless whispers of white women scammers)"

Everything is a performance.

The cover art features a face with wide eyes behind the word 'SCAM', it wasn't necessarily intentional, but it does evoke the iconic cover art by Francis Cugat for The Great Gatsby, the mouth is whispering the words "the careless whispers of white women scammers"

Beneath this, there are six marble statues of white women all on pedestals, one of them, with hair in the style of Marie Antoinette, has no pedestal and lies horizontally

The eyes in the face cry to the point that the pedestals are slowly being overwhelmed by the flood.

A sailing ship called 'The Scam' attempting to get a hook into a big sperm whale, but the whale is about to chomp on that boat, there are birds in the sky in the distance

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026

How about a whole sticker sheet instead, as a little treat. Might also do those 'slop' stickers separately as individual stickers, too.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil frogs saying

"Don't talk to me about AI" "Don't show me slop" "Don't make me 'talk' to a chatbot"

and then 3 more frogs saying "it's a scam" "SLOP" and "use your brains!"

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026

I made these super quick for a slide for a presentation, but I might clean them up and turn them into a set of 3 stickers

A little frog covering its mouth saying "don't make me "talk" to your "A.I." chatbot. I don't want to do it!"

A little frog covering its ears saying "Don't talk to me about "A.I." I don't want to hear it!"

A little frog covering its eyes saying "Don't show me "A.I." slop, I don't want to see it!"

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 24/08/2026

What a play. What performances. It was so much fun. I also delighted in the fact that I was SO close to the stage because I was able to take in so many little theatre details I love, like watching the stage crew making sure the glow in the dark marks for the edge of the stage were properly lit up.

The empty stage, waiting for the production of Rhinoceros starring Paul Giamatti, John Turturro and Tatiana Maslany

On the stage are three main set pieces, there's a cafe entrance with double doors, a table and chairs are visible behind it, there's a small scale building of a church set towards the back of the stage, and then another entrance to a building, this time a shop. The backdrop of the stage is meant to mimic rhinoceros skin.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 18/08/2026

Yes! I love getting lost, too. When I visit new places, sometimes I'll just go somewhere and then wander based solely on whims, like that looks like a cool street, ooh there's a neat building, etc. And one of the pages from my comic about brains is about this kind of thing!

When you remember a place you've been, can you see it in your mind?

For me, it often feels like a level rendering in a video game starting with me at a single point in space and then expanding outwards, buildings and streets coming into focus as I visualize it.

A little pink frog standing on a grid/plane with building shaped in the distance

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 16/08/2026

I just took a screenshot of one of those tai chi scams!

a generated scam ad promising body transformation in just "2 minutes a day" or some nonsense, this one is about tai chi, featuring a slim Asian woman with two braids wearing a pink sports bra and matching leggings, standing in a generated apartment that inexplicably has sliding doors that open up not onto a deck, but onto a literal pier into the ocean.

On the wall of this "apartment" are two large photographs, framed side by side. The first says "Before" and features a white woman of average weight in a sports bra (with the implication that there would be an 'after') only instead of the 'after' photo, there's just another generated slop photo of some nonsense deck and weird industrial thing that looks like it's a city made of wood.

Oh also, the lamp on the end table next to the (beige, of course), couch, is simultaneously somehow a teapot, a mug, a lamp and a potted plant.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 15/08/2026

Did a little redesign of the cover for the next printing which will be available at SPX!

BRAINS

A love letter to the brain. A celebration of the unique ways our brains sense and perceive the world, what it means to be human and the value of creating and thinking for yourself in spite of so-called "AI"

A colorful illustration of a brain, a little pink frog guy saying "I just love BRAINS!"

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10/08/2026

Every Frogby comes with a mini-comic for you and a mini-mini comic for your felted frog. I'm going to be printing a new set of comics soon to go out first with the Mail Club and then with the rest of the felted Frogby. The big comic unfolds into a secret surprise comic, too. frogby.bigcartel.com

A little felted frog with a comic called 'Frog by Day, Frog by Night' next to it and then an even tinier version of the same comic on the other side of the frog

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10/08/2026

Heading off to the post office in a few to send off another Frogby! There are also 3 spots left in the 2026 Frogby Mail Club, too! You get a postcard from Frogby straight away, then starting in September, a frog each month for the rest of the year! 🧶🐸 Ships 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦 Frogby Shop: frogby.bigcartel.com

a bunch of goofy little handmade needle felted frogs with big eyes and silly expressions in pink, green and blue

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 07/08/2026

The Frogby Shop! Each Frogby is one of a kind and comes with a mini-comic for you and a mini mini-comic for your felted friend! Frogs start at $25 and shipping is available to the US, UK, and Canada! frogby.bigcartel.com

Verdant Little Frogby
Magnificent Little Frogby
Electric Little Frogby
Pink Dream Frogby
Eccentric Little Frogby
Spring Green Frogby

Each felted frog has a mini-comic called Frog by Day, Frog by Night and then a teeny tiny version of the mini-comic for the little frog.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 06/08/2026

Most of these little pals are still in the shop, though, a few have gone off to their new homes. Frogs start at $25, they come with a mini-comic for you and a mini-mini comic for your wee frog! It’s a great day when you get to have a little frog hop into your life! 🐸 frogby.bigcartel.com

A number of different pink, blue and green needle felted frogs with goofy expressions and big eyes

A number of different pink, blue and green needle felted frogs with goofy expressions and big eyes, one of the frogs is a ballerina with a tutu

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 05/08/2026

just gotta add eyes and a face and then seal up the magnets in the lily pad

A little Frogby (needle felted frog), but the eyes and face haven’t been added yet so it’s more like a little felt “x” on a green felt circle lilypad

The bottom of the lily pad revealing two tiny magnets

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 05/08/2026

This is where you put the magnets in the lil feet and then carefully felt over them which is incredibly annoying because of the magnet/needle, so I put a sheet of craft felt in between two magnets while I do, felt that into the foot, and then I'll cover that with more aquamarine roving

An in progress needle felted frog with feet that have hollows in them revealing where I'll be putting the magnets to attach the frog to a lily pad

The second stage of putting magnets in the foot, the hollow has been covered with a bit of craft felt that is a different color from the wool, so it's visible, you can also see the magnet outside of the frog, used as a counter to keep the interior magnet from being attracted to the needle so much

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 04/08/2026

I always gotta get mad about AI when I make comics and art lately, but it is also a scam, so you know, it fits.

Screenshot of some of the pages in progress from my zine, a few are untouched (or appear to be, maybe I'm not showing you everything yet! you don't know!) they are very colorful but unreadable at this resolution (on purpose)

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