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Gale Galligan

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🐰 Cartoonist, bunfriend, learnin the drums 📚 BABY-SITTERS CLUB 5-8 🪀FREESTYLE & FRESH START✈️ 🦔 http://galesaur.com/quick-links/ 🏳️‍🌈 they/them next book: secret 😉

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · Jan 7

Fresh Start is OUT!!!!! It’s a lot of things — a mixed kid story, a gender story, a complicated family story, a friendship story, a love letter to anime tweens — but mostly it is RIDICULOUS and FUN and I’m so proud of it and so grateful to everyone who made it happen. AHHHHHHHHHH.

Sketchbook drawing of Ollie from Fresh Start. Title: “it’s… book day!”
Ollie exclaims: I’m in a comic?!
Text: Yeah!!
Ollie: Do I have cool powers???
Text: …No!!!
Small text: Or do you?

Stack of copies of Fresh Start by Gale Galligan on a table for signing.

Childhood pen drawing of three original creatures. They are basically circles with big anime eyes and hands and feet, like a cross between Kirby and Pokemon. They have shiny ball-tipped antennae. Text at the bottom labels them “elementei.”

Two page spread from Fresh Start by Gale Galligan.

PAGE 1
PANEL 1
Ollie and friends lounge in Zoe’s room. Maya is reading in a corner.
Zoe: FRENCH FLAPS!
Ollie: Right?!
Zoe: Gah, I wiiiish we got some of the nicer books you see overseas.

PANEL 2
Maya keeps reading.
Off panel voice: Yeah, the original Deepsea Merbattle books are like this much bigger.
Off panel voice: With all that detail, too.

PANEL 3
Nina throws a pillow at Maya. It hits the side of her head; she is unfazed.
SFX: poomf
Nina: Come on, Meta, you have dragons at home.
Maya: Oof.

PANEL 4
Maya has a ready retort; Nina sticks out her tongue.
Maya: You know that my siblings do not give me a moment of peace.
Ollie: Meta?

PANEL 5
Zoe replies with a grin.
Zoe: Oh, it’s just something from a story we’re working on.

PAGE 2
A full page illustration of the Elementei Guardians, as imagined by Zoe, Maya, and Nina. It has a title treatment and a copyright notice ( (c) Elementei Studios). They have clearly spent some time thinking about this.

Caption: In a world where people have figured out how to harness teleportation magic for their machines, but don’t realize that they’re wearing down our interplanetary fabric — evil monsters start slipping through the cracks!

Caption: Fortunately, good creatures have found their way into our world from a magical dimension to help our heroes save the day! They are… the Elementei Guardians!!

Label: Chaos, Fire Elementei, Electric 🔥⚡️ specialty
Label: Meta, Water Elementei, Mind specialty 💧🔄
Label: Angel, Air Elementei, Heart specialty ☁️❤️

Zoe, Nina, and Maya stand underneath their respective characters and strike a pose. Ollie sits in front of them, serving as their audience.

Zoe: And there you have it!
Maya: It’s mostly in our heads right now.
Ollie: Neat.

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 14h

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

a panel from my entry in Samidoon. it is sepia tone of a palestinan family walking. the caption reads "in 2024, the images from inside Gaza echo my family's storie from Palestine. the walk away from our tattered homes looks the same as 50 years ago." the 2024 is crossed out witht 2025 written next to it. my hands are shaking with rage and grief as i type

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Gabriela Rodríguez Epstein @pichikui.bsky.social · 4h

👻The Danny Phantom: Fair Game book launch is Nov 2nd! 👻It'll be moderated by the amazing @ngoziu.com at @bookpeople.com!
Come for early release copies, ranting about superheroes and more! RSVP below!

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 18h

So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
ko-fi.com/kodyisover

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 19h

you should read my horse yaoi

toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 1d

#mybook HOTBLOOD! is a neo-noir Fantasy/Western about bestiality and the Transcontinental Railroad, Publishers Weekly said it was "good," and I'm drawing Vol. 2 for September 2026

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Ru Xu @ SPX H6A @ruemxu.bsky.social · 22h

Looks like it's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop! 📚

FREE SHIPPING for the 7th and 8th! It's a great opportunity to support independent bookstores and get the first two Status Royale books (on discount!) 🥳

👉 bookshop.org/shop/ruemxu

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 5h

I just!!!!! I know culturally we keep finding new and creative ways to separate public figures from the idea that they are also regular people, but like, COME ON

Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 23h

ughhhh i'd believe it

Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 23h

ahhhhh hang in there ;0;

Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 23h

gold star for you!

Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 1d

i am still sitting in horror at the idea that zelda williams had to go online and ask a bunch of strangers not to send fake videos of her dead dad. what the FUCK

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

KEEPING TIME returns, as promised!!

#KeepingTime is a bittersweet bummer of a gay band romance that just started its 4th chapter, which means there's already 106 pages for you to dive into. #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

Full page spread of a close-up of a bulletin board. A flyer that reads, "Chapter 4: My Father's Dreams" takes front and center of the spread. Around it, numerous flyers and business cards are pinned to it with colored thumbtacks.

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 1d

ahhh bunny baby!!! ;0;<3333 i hope surgery is smooth & recovery is quick!

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Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · 1d

Found out that my rabbit needs to have another $500+ tooth surgery sooo... I have to take commissions and get some digital sales asap... 😵‍💫

Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm Vanessa, disabled comic creator, writer, illustrator, merch designer, & #dnd game master.

🎨Portfolio quietsnooze.net
🎸Webcomic radiosilencecomic.com
📙Patreon patreon.com/quietsnooze
🎲Official DnD Merch ko-fi.com/quietsnooze/...
☕Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/quietsnooze
📦Shop snooze-labs.com

Books RADIO SILENCE, PROFICIENCIES, and EXPERTISE as well as DnD dice, Radio Silence patches and acrylic charms and candles

Comic page of a rock band on stage playing instruments from webcomic Radio Silence

Official DnD merchandise of the dragon hoard dice bags and gelatinous cube dice bags

Cat and Damien by the fire
Damien: Do I want to know what’s in this?
Cat: Squirrel.
Damien: Yep, I did not want to know.

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 1d

At the Busan Global Webtoon Festival, held in the South Korean city September 25–28, Kim Hyun Sook’s graphic novel, Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit (Penguin Workshop), coauthored with Ryan Estrada, was transformed into a bench placed at the end of the festival’s red carpet.
(Penguin Young Readers)

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671968...

Black Arms to Hold You Up by Ben Passmore: 9780593316122 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 1d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Lee Knox Ostertag @mollyostertag.bsky.social · 1d

limited signed copies of Dungeon Club: Final Face-off are up in my shop! mkobooks.bigcartel.com/product/dung...

Dungeon Club: Final Face-Off (signed)

In the third and final installment of the heartfelt Dungeons & Dragons graphic novel series by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma, the club...

mkobooks.bigcartel.com

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d

You can also be like my mom and order Angelica and the Bear Prince, in fact!!! It’s out now! 🐻‍❄️

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 1d

AHHHH happy bookday!!!! so excited to enjoy it!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🐻👑🎉🎉🎉

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d

Mother-daughter bonding

A dark-haired young woman and her mother are looking through a glass window as snow falls around them. The young woman is flipping her middle finger at someone while her mother is pointing menacingly at the same person with a slightly less rude finger.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 2d

One of our most exciting rewards this campaign - The Comics Courier Catalogue, which will feature blurbs about all different kinds of places where you can read and listen to comics criticism! Perfect for people who miss the Scholastic book fair catalogue.

comicscourier.com

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really excited to get to do a signing at NYCC this year! I'll be at @01firstsecond.bsky.social's Booth #3300 at 1 PM on Thursday, 10/9!! See you there!!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Something fundamental has broken in the brains of elites. No matter how many op-eds they read, write and publish denouncing identity politics, they still think it's a heterodox viewpoint you can't find anywhere.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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