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Gale Galligan.

Illustrator · United States

Gale Galligan: American cartoonist who continued the Baby-Sitters Club graphic-novel line after Raina Telgemeier — keeping the series visually consistent for ages 8–12.

Gale Galligan is an American cartoonist best known as the second graphic-novel adapter of Ann M. Martin's Baby-Sitters Club novels, picking up after Raina Telgemeier and continuing the line with Dawn and the Impossible Three, Kristy's Big Day, Boy-Crazy Stacey and others. Galligan's style stays close to Telgemeier's established Baby-Sitters Club visual language while adding their own warmth and character work, keeping the graphic-novel line consistent for new and returning readers. They also write and illustrate Freestyle (a stand-alone middle-grade graphic novel about a hip-hop dance crew). A core contemporary middle-grade graphic-novelist for ages 8–12.