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Gale Galligan
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🐰 Cartoonist, bunfriend, learnin the drums
📚 BABY-SITTERS CLUB 5-8
🪀FREESTYLE & FRESH START✈️
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I Will Chomp It
out of focus rabbit approaches the camera menacingly. a decorated holiday tree sits in the background
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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always always ALWAYS check the source

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Screencap from Sara Pichelli’s Instagram: sara_pichelli It got to my attention an headline about me saying something about Miles' royalties that was written after an interview here at CCXP. I wanted to let go but since many of you are writing to me I want to make things clear. That headline is an embarrassing click bait news. Who wrote that, twisted completely the tone of our conversation which was relaxed and ironic, plus that was a tiny part of our conversation where I wasn't complaining or mad at all, just saying few lines about the business industry. Screencap from Sara Pichelli’s Instagram. sara_pichelli I know royalties and copyright are hot topic, but please don't use me or my work to take sides or talk sh*t, I won't let you do that. Also when a creator do an interview during a show (and CCXP was insanely busy) is being generous and kind, please don't do ever take advantage of that to create questionable contents to get more followers. Be better, do bette
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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visiting cats (and relatives)
Cat in photographer’s lap, next to an open sketchbook with drawings of the cat. Close on the sketchbook in previous photograph: sketches in blue and red color pencil of cats, as well as a watercolor sketch of three kids together. Two watch as one plays an iPad game; one says “now you’re big! You should never be big!”
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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the last few days of logging on to find Book Pirating Discourse
Colin from What We Do In The Shadows, sitting at a laptop to start fights online.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Early drawings of Ollie! The first two are for a different pitch about a girl who adopts a hedgehog. I wanted her design and personality to also be hedgie-like.

I shared that with my agent alongside an autobio idea that wasn't quite working. She said, "well, what if you combined them?"
Development sketches of Ollie from FRESH START with handwritten notes. Character silhouette with simple face and big fluffy hoodie. Note: Maybe a feeling like the hoodie is swallowing her up? Like it's a shell/protective. Note: Too BIG LMAO Note: Maybe starts off less expressive - shows big feelings w/hedgie & new friends (parents worry) Sketch of the character's face with half-closed eyes and a judgmental expression. A doodled character to the side heckles: "Brush your hair!" Note: Aloof? Note: Not spiky but messy/fluffy Sketch of the character wearing a Tetris shirt and leggings. Note: Owns a lot of video game shirts probably. Note by hair: Fluffy. Note: Big shirt + leggings Drawing of the character sitting in profile. Note: Figure out profile. Drawing of the character in casual wear. Note: Layers, pockets. Sketch of Ollie from FRESH START lying on a couch with a curious hedgehog on her chest, sniffing her face. Sketches of Ollie from FRESH START, a tween with short brown hair and overemotive facial acting. She wears a sleeveless hoodie, black t-shirt, choker, fingerless gloves, cargo shorts, and chunky sneakers -- except for the sketch of her in a dress, where she looks miserable.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Low-quality image of Yukito from Card Captor Sakura. A mock-Pokemon title treatment above says “Bishonen - Gotta catch ‘em all!” Text underneath reads “You caught Yukito!”
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Manga panel of two businessmen waving at each other from a distance saying “same hat!!!”
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sometimes you see a d&d nerd possessed by a murder spirit and you’re like “yeah that’s the one”
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Here are some pages from this semiautobiographical book, which "[b]eautifully ­tackles ­complex ­friendships, sibling ­dynamics, racial identity, and gender expression", thank you School Library Journal,,,
Excerpt from FRESH START by Gale Galligan. A regular comic panel overlays an imaginary sequence drawn in a more childlike style. IMAGINARY PANEL 1 A monster sucks up a human soul. IMAGINARY PANEL 2 The monster is interrupted. It looks up in surprise. SFX: shwiing!! IMAGINARY PANEL 3 Ollie and Cat's alter egos pose like Sailor Moon. They're wearing cool superhero outfits. Their dialogue is handwritten. OLLIE: Your shape-shifting can't fool us!!!! CAT: Yeah! Go back to your own planet! IMAGINARY PANEL 4 Close on Ollie's determined smile. IMAGINARY PANEL 5 OLLIE: Perennial Blooms Blast!!! Fwoooooosh!!! REAL PANEL 1 Back in reality, Cat and Ollie are walking through an airport. Cat grumbles. CAT: Hang on. I thought this was a stealth mission. Find the bad guys without giving away our secret identities? OLLIE: Uh... Excerpt continues. PANEL 1 Ollie gestures to one side. OLLIE: No, it's fine, because we're space royals. Our type of magic... it's... like infrared. Human eyes can't see it. PANEL 2 Cat crosses her arms. Ollie rolls her eyes. CAT: Okaaaay, but you yelled out your attack and the shape-shifter disintegrated. You're telling me -- OLLIE: You're an illusionist, Cat! Put up a cloaking field! PANEL 3 Cat harrumphs. Ollie grins. Cat: The name is Princess Sylphonaria. SFX: hmph PANEL 4 Cat looks serious. Ollie is surprised. CAT: But anyway... are you all right? OLLIE: What? PANEL 5 Close on Ollie's wide-eyed reaction as Cat continues. CAT: You know, uh, with moving... and not getting to say goodbye to Rebecca. PANEL 6 Ollie looks down. PANEL 7 Wide on the airport hallway that Ollie and Cat are walking through. OLLIE: Pff, yeah. Why wouldn't I be? We do this all the time. CAT: Oh... okay. PANEL 8 Cat looks sad. Ollie is distracted by something off-panel. CAT: Because I feel like I finally found this great group of friends, and now -- Excerpt continues. PANEL 1 Ollie presses her hands against the window of an airport bookshop. A manga series named QUILL!! is on prominent display, standee and all. PANEL 2 Ollie grins widely at Cat, who backs away in distress. PANEL 3 Ollie zooms into the bookstore; Cat sighs. Excerpt continues. PANEL 1 Volumes of QUILL!! line a bookshelf. OLLIE (off-panel): They have the German editions! PANEL 2 Cat frowns. Ollie is undeterred. CAT: You can't read German. OLLIE: They're bigger and the cover design is so much better. And look at this! PANEL 3 Ollie has a big, horrible smile. She is not well. Cat is not impressed. OLLIE: French flaps. CAT: You can't read French, either. PANEL 4 Cat protests. CAT: Mom and Dad sent us to buy snacks. OLLIE: What is this, if not a snack for the soul. PANEL 5 Cat is frustrated; Ollie is a fool. OLLIE: If we pool our money, we can get two volumes. CAT: You can't eat manga. OLLIE: They hand out snacks on the plane. Pleeease, Cat. PANEL 6 Ollie pushes her face right up against Cat's; Cat intercedes with a hand. OLLIE: Please, please, pleaseeee. SFX: smoosh
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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AND this book is in FULL COLOR, COURTESY OF INDOMITABLE COMICS GENIUS @charmgardens.com !!!!

You can buy it from your favorite independent bookstore or on the INTERNET!

bookshop.org/p/books/fres...
Four panels from FRESH START by Gale Galligan, colors by K Czap. PANEL 1 Cat, Mom, and Ollie stare in horror as a hedgehog (Quilly) anoints itself, turning its head backwards to deposit frothy spit on its quills. PANEL 2 Ollie panics. Cat holds a hand out to Mom. OLLIE: I fed him some banana, it was just a little bit, I don't know what - CAT: Mom. Gimme your phone. PANEL 3 Cat looks at Mom's phone. CAT: Okay... here we go. "Hedgehogs will occasionally self-anoint after smelling or eating something unusual. They froth up their spit and lick themselves all over..." PANEL 4 Cat continues, and so does the hedgehog. CAT: "Presumably to cover themselves in the interesting scent, though nobody can say for sure." OLLIE: Ew. QUILLY: fthpththth
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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HELLO!! 2025 is drawing to a close, people are buying gifts for the tweens in their lives, and DID YOU KNOW that a graphic novel named Fresh Start came out THIS YEAR?

⭐THREE starred reviews!
⭐about a kid who moves around a lot AND THEN HAS TO STAY IN ONE PLACE OH NO
⭐VERY FUNNY, LOTS OF DRAWINGS
Author Gale Galligan executing a years-too-late kneeling dab next to a standee of the cover for FRESH START (2025).
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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i am, regrettably, that simple
Hobonichi diary comic from November 19, 2025. PANEL 1 Gale holds up a diary. CAPTION: I want to get back into a true daily *diary* comic habit... but how? GALE: maybe if i leave it on my desk PANEL 2 Diary and pen sparkling on a desk. GALE (off panel): that way Morning Gale will find it and be like, "oh! the comics fairy left this for me!" PANEL 3 Gale stands over the desk and starts drawing in their diary. CAPTION: Surely you are not that simple, Gale. GALE: well as long as it's right here GALE: might as well jot down a little somethin PANEL 4 Close on Gale from a worms-eye view, sparkly-eyed with an unnaturally wide closed-mouth smile. CAPTION: oh my god BANNER IN LOVELY CURSIVE: fully invested
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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same, pal
Frog sitting demurely on a leaf.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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children are the best gesture drawing challenge
Sketchbook spread with light watercolor treatment. Gesture drawings of a child lying on his stomach, rolling over, sitting up, stretching. Also a drawing of my mom in profile.
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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florf
very fluffy cat gazing out of window, one ear up just in case
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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if any of you also use Simply To Impress, I have just let them know exactly why I'll be using another service this holiday season, with citations. UGH
screencap from the Simply To Impress website. Text around a photo upload prompt reads: Let's Cartoonify Your Photo! Select up to 3 Photos TIP: For Best Results, upload portraits of individuals, couples, or pets. Avoid group photos or busy backgrounds. I confirm that I have permission from all those depicted in these photos to convert their likenesses into cartoon stickers using AI technology for use on products I purchase. If any minors appear in these photos, I confirm I either am, or have obtained consent from, their parent or legal guardian. Currently, we only allow you to generate a set of stickers 5 times per week. You have 5 times remaining. Screencap from the Simply to Impress website. Shop listing for a Cartoon of You Party Hat, featuring a "Turn Your Photos Into Cartoons!" option.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Benoit Blanc saying “it makes no damn sense.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Screencap of Piglet from Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh looking disgusted.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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calling the reps again like
Wikihow image. Drawing of a hand pointing at an unhappy cat. Text reads “5 Be firm and consistent. No”
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Ke Huy Quan accepting an Oscar. Subtitle: Please keep your dreams alive.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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i don’t wanna give you up
Almost-fully-used pencil nub (a double-sided red and blue Mitsubishi) sitting on a sketchbook page with hand studies and miscellaneous face doodles.
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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spotted
A sleeping bunny.
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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an exceptional read
Screencap from article. Text: out of their papers. He talked about this project so much that strangers began reaching out to share their own three-legged lizard encounters, having heard of Losos from their own friends. Losos also posted on a community blog, Anole (pronounced like "annal") Annals (pronounced like "anoles") to report the lizards he'd found and solicit more reports. Screencap from article. Text: three days after this accidental amputation, Cusick saw the lizard mating with a large female and inflating his bright throat flap to ward off other males. "I said, I gotta come down and catch that lizard," Losos said. Cusick invited Losos to lasso in her backyard. "She told me, 'The lizard is always there. You'll have no trouble," he said. He flew down at the end of the semester, rented a car, and drove to Cusick's home with a ticket to fly home that night. Once in the backyard, Losos could not find the anole. "It was very stressful," he said. As he and Cusick took a break for dinner, Losos wracked his brain wondering if he should change his flight and get a hotel room.
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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found myself reminiscing about a Defining Moment
Excerpt from text conversation: BUBBLE 1 (right): there — one of dad's friends from work gave us vhs rips of please save my earth and el hazard, and that was that BUBBLE 2 (right): which, to whoever that guy was: props for thinking "this kid could benefit from a gay reincarnation tragedy." correct
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Screencap of the baby from the 90s TV show Dinosaurs, sitting in a high chair with food in hand, gazing off screen.
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM