Jorge R Gutierrez

This is the tale of "El Tigre," a new animated TV series about Latinos that was actually created by Latinos. It's a story, like so many in Los Angeles, of immigration, ambition, defeat, triumph and, of course, romance. It starts at the border town of Tijuana, where the show's creators, Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, met in high school 13 years ago and fell in love, initially against the wishes of her family, who are all doctors.

This is the tale of "El Tigre," a new animated TV series about Latinos that was actually created by Latinos. It's a story, like so many in Los Angeles, of immigration, ambition, defeat, triumph and, of course, romance. It starts at the border town of Tijuana, where the show's creators, Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, met in high school 13 years ago and fell in love, initially against the wishes of her family, who are all doctors.

"El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera," which premieres this morning on Nickelodeon, is a bright and energetic new cartoon set in a sort of Mexican Townsville called Miracle City, "a spicy cesspool of crime and villainy" located at the foot of a volcano. But it should be said that as bad as things can get in a town with its own Evil Store, things are far worse in the mountain city of Calavera, a place so bad its mascot is a broken leg.