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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com
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Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them Support my work: patreon.com/trungles Links: bio.site/trungles

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4h
Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it to Ferrara, but I will start my tour in Bologna instead!
Cartoon me is having a cry in front of my adjusted tour schedule which no longer includes Ferrara.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/10/2026
Big brother www.inprnt.com/artist/print...
Drawing of a white-haired, sharp-clawed gentlemen in Japanese fantasy robe and armor. Sesshoumaru from Inuyasha is some peak This Is My OC character design
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/10/2026
We’re not gonna think about how long ago 2018 is
Jean Grey in her 2018 costume from X-Men Red, a red-headed woman in an armored body suit floating in space
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
I just think Chihiro Iwasaki—
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/09/2026
Tackled by the baby
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/09/2026
I’m on tour!!! Who’s in Italy next week?
A cartoon of myself superimposed over an actual photo I took of a piazza last time I was in Italy. The word balloons say, “I’m going on book tour… in Italy!”ANGELICA E IL PRINCIPE ORSO
TRUNG LE NGUYEN IN TOUR

4 Ottobre | ore 14:00
BIBLIOTECA CASA NICCOLINI, FERRARA
Festival Internazionale

5 Ottobre | ore 17:00
BIBLIOTECA SALA BORSA, BOLOGNA

6 Ottobre | ore 17:30
SALA SANTA MARIA NIVES,
RIMINI

10 Ottobre | ore 17:00
EXMA TORRETTA TAM TAM, CAGLIARI
Festival Tuttestorie

11 OTTOBRE | ORE 18:00
LIBRERIA NOVARCADIA, ROMAA cartoon of myself superimposed over an actual photo I took of a piazza last time I was in Italy. This time I am running around like the roadrunner. The word balloons say, “Yaaay!!!”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/09/2026
seventh dimensional starlight
A woman crowned with a star stands above glassy stones
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/09/2026
A tiny snippet of a thing I’m working on
A very close crop of an illustration of Marceline and Princess Bubblegum from the Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/09/2026
This one
A picture of a triangular pokemon called a Snorunt
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/09/2026
Some old drawings of a young Wonder Woman I did while working on my Black and Gold short story.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/09/2026
Spiral www.patreon.com/trungles/pos...
A six-armed lady in furry boots brandishes a bunch of swords!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/09/2026
OH YES the panel:
I’m on a panel about Kidlit publishing from 1:30 to 2:20
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/09/2026
Today!!! I’m at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, doing a presentation, a panel, and two signings!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/09/2026
I let my hair grow out a little and realized I have to change how I cartoon myself. Also I haven’t taken any selfies in earnest in at least a couple years 😭
It me—masc Asian person with glasses in a black undershirt
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 11/09/2026
Oh wow, so gruel is a soup so boring that the other soups made it sit at another table by itself.
noun
Definition
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: a thin porridge
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/09/2026
I made a custom stamp for bookplates and signings 💪
A bookplate for Random House’s Underlined YA publicity efforts stamped with a cartoon bear Prince and my author signature
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 03/09/2026
Someone got mad at me for misusing “seraphim” as a singular and not a plural, and went on to suggest I was being antisemitic for misappropriating Jewish angelology.
A screencap of a tweet by @BaseballGabb from 2023:

what's the dumbest reason someone on the internet got mad at you?
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 03/09/2026
It is extremely difficult to say no to her on account of all her excellent counter-arguments.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/09/2026
The Danish edition of Angelica and the Bear Prince!!!
A Danish edition of my graphic novel, a blue book cover with two cartoon figures in… not a clinch cover, but a clasp cover? I guess?
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/08/2026
Space operas and doomed lovers in space have been occupying my brain
Illustration of Dark Phoenix, a red-clad woman engulfed in cosmic fire destroying a bunch of planets
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/08/2026
Minnie is 1 whole year old today
My sandy-colored dog, an Aussie Shepherd, poodle and pug mix, lies on top of a large Lamb Chop toy on our couch. She sort of looks like an Ewok. She’s looking to her left. My sandy-colored dog, an Aussie Shepherd, poodle and pug mix, lies on top of a large Lamb Chop toy on our couch. She glances back at a person she’s snuggling up against. Here she looks like she’s smiling.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/08/2026
Look, up in the sky—it’s Harold.
Illustration of Hal Jordan, a Green Lantern. He’s an Edie dude with brown hair in a green and black super hero suit.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/08/2026
If Carol Ferris has no fans, I am dead
A drawing of a superheroine in an odd purple suit and crystalline face mask
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 22/08/2026
I love this movie so much
A grainy shot of a black and white movie, It Happened One Night, where Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are in the back seat of a car driven by a man who looks alarmingly like Tim Heidecker.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/08/2026
Superman term-searches himself, smh 😔
An Instagram notification that “Superman liked your post.”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/08/2026
Look, up in the sky, etc etc etc just kidding it’s a very broad-shouldered bishonen
Superman descends from a sunny blue sky
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/08/2026
Has anybody seen Hal Jordan?
Carol Ferris, the Star Sapphire, a young woman with dark hair in a cheese-cake-y pink and violet superhero singlet. She's a love interest character from the Green Lantern portion of the DC Universe.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/08/2026
Good ol’ Zee! I’ve never been super fond of Zatanna’s whole deal, so I rooted around a little bit to figure out how I could make it fun for me. Turns out I do like her. She’s just kinda goofy. www.patreon.com/trungles/pos...
A character sheet of six iterations on the same character, Zatanna, a pale, dark-haired stage magician in a tail coat and top hat.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 13/08/2026
I really like Storm’s standard Marvel Rivals design
Storm, the X-men leader, a Black woman with white hair in a rather busy-looking bodice and a cape.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 13/08/2026
The chickens are having a tipple
A few of my chickens inside of their coop gather around the water feeder, turning up their heads and warbling their beaks as they drink. One of my hens hangs out among some partridge peas.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 13/08/2026
Moments before she lunged at me in order to reclaim her favorite toy
A sandy-colored dog lies on a couch with a Wonder Woman blanket over the cushions.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/08/2026
Taylor
A green-haired alien girl with bright pink skin
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/08/2026
Besties
A drawing of Storm and Jean Grey—a black woman in a Mohawk and spiky leather outfit and a white redhead in a white and gold bodysuit—doing superhero-y stuff
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 09/08/2026
I can aim somewhat now www.patreon.com/trungles/pos...
Jean Grey and the Phoenix. A redheaded woman in a red and blue futuristic body suit is flanked by a winged being of fire that bears a resemblance to her.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 04/08/2026
It’s fun to mess around with your style
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 03/08/2026
In the latest installment of our summer DnD campaign, my little monk is very stressed.
A young man holding a short staff confronts a large red dragon. A satyr angrily brandished a giant hammer astride the red dragon while a young man in red is frozen in fear mid-flight. A close-up of the young man frozen in fear mid-flight.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/07/2026
Hang on, I have another Vision
A young lady in a regency dress looking annoyed. The text reads, “Fuck ‘em up, Elizabeth Bennet!!!”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/07/2026
I have a Vision
Black and white cartoon portrait of a young lady in a poofy-sleeved dress with an empire waist looking pensively into the distance, gently decorated with daisies. The text reads “Fuck ‘em up, Elizabeth Bennet!!!”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/07/2026
I’m signing editions of Pride and Prejudice at comic con now 🤣
A beautiful edition of Pride and Prejudice with a yellow-gold fabric cover decorated with swans 🦢 The signed title page of the of this edition of Pride and Prejudice where I do a little doodle of Elizabeth
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 24/07/2026
I have landed in San Diego—see you soon maybe!
Cartoon version of me, dark-haired fellow in a cream jacket and blue  jeans, landing unceremoniously on my face
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 24/07/2026
Good news!!!
A reader commented “Ohhhh. A mermaid book by you would be so good!” to which I responded, “Good news—“
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
I will also be signing at the Prism Comics booth from 3-4pm on Saturday!
A square flyer that says that I will be signing at the Prism Comics booth from 3-4pm on Saturday at San Diego comic con, booth 2144
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026
I somehow missed the memo on this, but prints in my INPRNT shop are now discounted for Patreon members! I also just updated the selection to include the funny sphinxes and some illustrations I haven’t made available before. Check it out! www.inprnt.com/gallery/trun...
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 20/07/2026
I have been playing this video game (Granblue Relink) pretty fixedly for the last week, and I like to play as this ghost bunny girl with a whip
A drawing of a ghostly bunny girl with very long hair
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 18/07/2026
I’m coming to San Diego Comic con!!! Hope to see you there!
A drawing of me, a feral-looking Asian guy in round glasses, astride a Bear Prince mascot struggling to carry us forward. The text reads:

I’m coming to San Diego Comic Con International!!!

Sunday

Panel
10AM, room 29AB
Graphic Storytelling: From Idea to Page

Signing
11:30AM, AA04
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/07/2026
She’s a doll!
My little sandy-colored dog stands on my couch amid a bunch of her toys.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/07/2026
For your viewing pleasure, I also doodled a portrait of an unfortunate typo I made while typing up the last post.
The same portrait as before except instead of a handsome head, a mixed drink glass with a little lime slice wedged on its rim is present. This is Mr Daiquiri from when I horribly mistyped “Mr Darcy” as “Mr Dacry” before correcting it.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/07/2026
I had to stop and take a few minutes to doodle out a little dreamt visual of Mr Darcy.
A portrait drawing of Mr Darcy, a handsome man with a taciturn expression turned away from the viewer. He is also surrounded by hearts and such, a personal touch by the artist.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 09/07/2026
I went into a fugue state and cartooned my feelings at reading this passage. I have floppy dark hair and round glasses. My head is tilted back, my mouth wide open, steam billowing out of it looking like a smoke stack. Mr Darcy’s words hang prominently around me. 

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
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