Pablo Leon

Author & Director | Guatemala/USA

Pablo Leon is an author and artist from Guatemala, currently living in LA, California, and jumping between TV animation and comics industries. He's an Eisner Award Nominee for his original comic The Journey, an account of an unaccompanied child coming from Central America to the U.S., and he was the illustrator for the exciting middle grade graphic novel series Miles Morales at Marvel and Scholastic. He’s worked with Disney, Warner Bros, and Nickelodeon. His passion for capturing and elevating the Latino/é historical memory in his art and stories has led him to his writer/artist debut Silenced Voices at Harper Alley, and his first animated short film Remember Us, which qualified for consideration for Best Animated Short Film for the Academy Awards.

He currently works at Disney TVA as an Assistant Art Director on an animated production.