Better known to over 35O million people worldwide as the despicable lawyer Michael
Baldwin on The Young and the Restless, Christian Jules LeBlanc is also quite an accomplished artist.
Illustrations that began as gifts for his young nephews quickly dovetailed nicely with
his acting career. The producers of the play Ladies in Retirement, the premier
theatrical production of the Coconut Grove Theater's 4Oth, anniversary season,
offered him a commission to transmogrify the human characters of the play into the
animal characters LeBlanc had been developing for children's books. The drawings
followed the course of the old Victorian whodunit, incorporating the clues of the
murder mystery along the way. Christian followed up this success by entering his
first art show. He was awarded "second overall" in the prestigious Culver City Art
Festival in Los Angeles.
Among the proud owners of LeBlanc's works are Julie Harris, Eileen Brennan,
Charles Nelson Reilly, June Havoc and Grace Zabriskie. Currently he is
collaborating on a children's book with William Luce, (The Belle of Amherst author).
Le Blanc is working on his own book as well. Louisiana Moon is due out next year.