David Álvarez
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DC Comics
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Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
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series, Disney
The Walt Disney Company
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and other companies.
Early years
As a child Alvarez enjoyed drawing. When he was five years old, he would spend hours on end watching Disney videos. He tried to draw the characters that he saw with unusual expressions on their faces. Alvarez received his primary and secondary education in his hometown.Yenny
Alvarez enrolled in the University of Puerto RicoUniversity of Puerto Rico
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after graduating from high school and continued to study art. In 1988, while still a student, he began to draw his first comic strip "Zacha and Anyelin", which was published in the local newspaper. He paid for his college expenses with the money earned. The comic strip eventually became known as "Yenny". Yenny is a beautiful girl with a pet iguana
Iguana
Iguana is a herbivorous genus of lizard native to tropical areas of Central America and the Caribbean. The genus was first described in 1768 by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in his book Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena...
who wants to become a model, the only problem is that she has enormous feet. With the success of Yenny, Alvarez decided to self-publish a comic book
Comic book
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called "Changuy" with David Martínez "Co-Creator" which is about a Batman
Batman
Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
-like crow.
Warner Bros.
Alvarez read in an Animation Magazine that Warner Bros.Warner Bros.
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was making new projects, among them "Space Jam
Space Jam
Aside from Jordan, a number of NBA players and coaches appeared in the film. Larry Bird portrays a friend of Jordan who joins him for a game of golf. When the Monstars steal the NBA players' talent, they invade a game between the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, causing the Knicks' Patrick...
". He sent samples of his work and after a year of waiting was finally contacted and began working for them as a free lance artist. The first story that he drew was an Animaniacs story and the second story was a Sylvester story called "Frankentweety".
Alvarez developed the idea of including cameos of obscure Looney Tunes characters within the storyboard panels. Among the people he has worked with and whom he considers his inspiration are Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...
, Tex Avery
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...
and Bob Clampett
Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil...
. He also illustrated a short Chuck Jones tribute story written by Dan Slott.
Later years
David Alvarez plans on introducing and publishing his characters in the United StatesUnited States
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market. He also does free lance work for Disney and other companies. He currently lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico with his wife and child.