Hi, my name is Christine LêSantos! I am a queer Vietnamese-Chinese-American Los Angeles based comic artist, illustrator, writer, and story artist! :-)

I have professional experience in storyboards, storyboard revisions, and writing for television animation.

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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)

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
Nickelodeon Shorts Semi-Finalist | Nickelodeon Animation Shorts Program
3rd Place
| 24 Hour Animation Contest

Articles

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


Speaking Engagements

Mazer Lesbian Archives | 2025
”Queer Comics Panel”

Legendaries: Good Bai Sun | 2025
Live Book Reading

Comics O’Clock | 2025
Community Comics Reading

FredFilms and Queer TAG presents “OutLoud Comics” | 2024
OutLoud Comics 2024: An LGBT+ Charity Comic Reading

Disney Television Animation: Drawn to Success | 2024

New Wave A Rising Tide: Next Wave | 2023
”The New Wave of Artists in the Vietnamese Diaspora”

FredFilms and Silverlake Shorts presents “OutLoud Comics” | 2023
OutLoud Comics 2023: An LGBT+ Charity Comic Reading

The Animation Guild | 2022
”Level Up: Getting the Next Gig”

Internal Nickelodeon Studios Panel | 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”

Internal Cartoon Network Studios Panel | 2019
”CNS Academy Alumni Panel”

Long Beach Zine Fest | 2018
”My So-Called Asian Life”

Exhibitor

Los Angeles Zine Fest | 2025
Lightbox Expo |
2024
Shortbox Comics Fair |
2024
Los Angeles Zine Fest |
2023
Los Angeles Zine Fest |
2020
Long Beach Zine Fest |
2019
Inland Empire Zine Fest |
2018
Long Beach Zine Fest |
2018
Ground Zero Animation Expo | 2017
Los Angeles Zine Fest |
2017
Orange County Zine Fest |
2017