David Álvarez

David Álvarez (born 1976) is the creator of the comic strips Yenny and Kotto Kotorra, and is illustrator and storyboard artist for DC Comics, the Looney Tunes series, Disney and other companies.

Early years Álvarez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a child, he enjoyed drawing and by the time he was five years old, he would spend hours on end watching Disney Movies. He tried to draw the characters that he saw with unusual expressions on their faces. Álvarez received his primary and secondary education in his hometown.

Yenny Álvarez enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico after graduating from high school and continued to study art. In 1998, 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 who wants to become a model; the only problem is that she has enormous feet. With the success of Yenny, Álvarez decided to self-publish a comic book called Changuy with David Martínez, about a Batman-like crow. In 2019, Alvarez disclosed that he was working as a character designer in Space Jam: A New Legacy, however, when the film was released in July 2021, Álvarez found that he was not credited, which led to controversy & spawned the trend #CreditAllArtists.

Later years / The ChickenDuck Show / Changuy David Álvarez plans on introducing and publishing his characters in the United States market. He also does freelance work for Disney and other companies. He currently lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico with his wife and child. A Kickstarter campaign was originally launched but was cancelled in favor for Indiegogo. The Indiegogo campaign did not meet its goal but David stated that storyboards for the series is still in the works, hinting that production is still being continued.

On June 20, 2019, David Álvarez launched a Kickstarter campaign for a Changuy origin issue entitled Rise of the Chango, which did not reach its initial goal of $3,000. Álvarez is also a character designer in the upcoming Snorks reboot