Hi, my name is Christine LêSantos!

I am a queer Vietnamese-Chinese American, Los Angeles born, raised, and based award nominated artist :-)

I have professional experience in storyboards, storyboard revisions, and writing for television animation. I also have professional experience in design, illustration, and comics working with clients across animation, non-profits, community spaces, and design firms.

I am the creator of Legendaries! A project that in its current form is a series of graphic novels and has sold out reading events in 120+ person venues.

I am always happy to take on freelance, consulting, and speaking engagements if the project fits! Please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Thanks for visiting my site!

“With sincere love and good humor packed into every drawing, LêSantos’ storytelling feels like a comforting hug.”
- Mike Trapp (Head writer and VP of Creative CollegeHumor)

“With her charming and confident narrative style, LêSantos makes a meal of mundane moments and rounds the edges of poignant ones. She invites us to linger in the beauty of them all.”
- Emmy-winning Alonso Ramírez Ramos (Executive Producer Steven Universe: Movie and Steven Universe Future)

“LêSantos captures the humor, blazing spirit, and tenderness that lives in everyday moments.”
- Jenn Strickland (Director Amphibia, Director Primos)

”LêSantos’ storytelling is able to tackle the complex feeling of being a kid that is in between cultures, where the struggle of our specific familial culture comes into direct conflict with our modern society.”
- Jaydeep Hasrajani (Creator Boons and Curses)

“LêSantos’ language in exploring joy and the collective love in community sings through in her stories.”
-Tiffany Ford (Creator Jessica’s Little Big World)

“LêSantos beautifully weaves together stories that are all around us, but so rarely told with this kind of heart and depth. It’s a reminder that we are made up of so many different stories and those stories blend, bump into each other, and become something totally new.”
- Emmy-winning Ivan Aguirre (Art Director Primos)

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Client List

Disney Television Animation
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Cartoon Network Studios
The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839)
National Day Laborers Organization Network (NDLON)
LaMont Digital
The California Endowment
50 First Jokes NYC

Programs

Nova Community Arts | Riso Print Comics Instructor
Disney Television Animation TVAnimAsians | Co-Events Chair
The Animation Guild and Inglewood School District Animation Project | Curriculum Developer
CNS Academy | Cartoon Network Studios Story Apprenticeship (6 selected from 2,000+ applicants)
Pixar @ CCA | Pixar Story Program
OK KO Animation Jam | Cartoon Network Shorts Collaboration
Nickelodeon Internship | Talent Development and Outreach

Accolades

Nominee, Non-Fiction | Comics Co-op Mini Comics Awards
Winner | Big City Greens Crew Pie Contest
Semi-Finalist | Nickelodeon Animation Shorts Program
3rd Place | 24 Hour Animation Contest

Articles

Los Angeles Public Press | Meet the L.A. print makers weaponizing art against ICE
L.A. Taco | Meet the L.A. Print Makers Weaponizing Art Against ICE
Cloudscape Comic Society | The TradeWaiters 119: The Cartoonist Co-Op Minicomic Awards 2025
Shoutout L.A. | Meet Christine Le | Storyteller
Deadline | “Cartoon Network Unveils Finalists For Storyboard Artist Training Program”
CSUF News | “Titans Take Third Place in Animation Challenge”
“Cartoon Network: OK KO Animation Jam” | LA Times | Variety | Animation Magazine | CSUF News Center

Galleries

“We Meet on the Streets” amplifies a collective response to displacement of Valley residents through ICE raids and LAPD sweeps.
Curated by 1111.projects
California State University, Northridge | 2026

“Community: A Cartoon Network Studios Charity Event” proceeds to benefit the National Black Justice Coalition.
Gallery Nucleus | 2020

“Food For Thought: A Cartoon Network Studios Charity Event” proceeds to benefit Feeding America.
Gallery Nucleus | 2020

Speaking Engagements

Disney | 2026
Inspire Day “Creating Inspiring Stories”
Legendaries Vol 02: Burned Out | 2026
SOLD OUT: Live Book Reading
BRIC Summit| 2026
Industry Think Tank “Change: Storytelling”
Anyone Can Cook | 2025
”Zine Reading”
Viet Film Fest | 2025
”Drawn to the Screen”
Junior High LA | 2025
”Live Doodle Benefit Show for Mutual Aid LA Network”
Mazer Lesbian Archives | 2025
”Queer Comics Panel”
Legendaries Vol 01: Good Bai Sun | 2025
SOLD OUT: Live Book Reading
Heavy Manners Library and Comics O’Clock | 2025
Community Comics Reading
FredFilms and Queer TAG | 2024
OutLoud Comics 2024: An LGBT+ Charity Comic Reading
Disney Television Animation | 2024
”Drawn to Success”
New Wave A Rising Tide: Next Wave | 2023
”The New Wave of Artists in the Vietnamese Diaspora”
FredFilms and Silverlake Shorts | 2023
OutLoud Comics 2023: An LGBT+ Charity Comic Reading
The Animation Guild | 2022
”Level Up: Getting the Next Gig”
Nickelodeon Studios | 2021
”Internship to Storyboarding”
Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Interactive and Digital Media (Singapore) | 2020
”From Beyond Our Land”
Rise Up Animation | 2020
”Cartoon Network Studios Artists: Journey into Animation”
Cartoon Network Studios | 2019
”CNS Academy Alumni Panel”
Long Beach Zine Fest | 2018
”My So-Called Asian Life”

Exhibitor

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