Gerard Alsteens (born 3 August 1940, in Auderghem) is a Belgian political cartoonist, graphic artist and painter who works under the pseudonym "GAL".
At the age of twelve he won a drawing contest in the newspaper Het Nieuws van den Dag.
In his penultimate year at Sint-Lucas Gal worked as apprentice at the Jesuit weekly magazine De Linie.
[1] Over the years his cartoons have been the subject of censorship by the magazine's editors and those published sometimes caused offended letters from readers.
One time GAL was watching a news bulletin on TV when he saw a report about a house of an ANC activist destroyed by a bomb attack.
[1] He has illustrated novels by Kristien Hemmerechts[4] and Geert van Istendael, as well as non-fiction works about political topics.