El Tigre heads for the UK

By John Freeman on June 6, 2007

Trade magazine Broadcast reports Nickelodeon has picked up hit animation series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera. A Flash-animated comedy-adventure series created by husband and wife team Sandra Equihua and Jorge Gutierrez, havefollows Manny, the youngest member of the Rivera family, who comes from a long-line of men with superpowers. His dad is a former superhero, once known as White Pantera, while his grandfather is a supervillain.

20 thirty minute episodes, created by a highly talented animation team, have been made so far and the show was a success out from the get go in the US, with positive acclaim from industry watchers such as Cold Hard Flash.

The show will air on Nicktoons in the UK at the end of this year. Nickelodeon has also acquired the second series of teen drama Unfabulous¸ which stars Julia Robert’s niece Emma.

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.