Writer/ Artist/ Director / Yehudi Mercado

Biography

Yehudi Mercado is a proud Mexican-Jewish storyteller from Mexico City, raised in Texas, with a passion for creating bold, character-driven worlds across film, animation, theme parks, and comics. As a screenwriter, cartoonist, and director, he was recently directing an original feature he wrote for DreamWorks Feature Animation and has helmed Cinema 4-D attractions for Universal Studios Japan—including Detective Conan 4D Live and Chainsaw Man: The Chaos 4D.

Yehudi is the creator of acclaimed graphic novels such as PANTALONES, TX, FUN FUN FUN WORLD, HERO HOTEL, ROCKET SALVAGE, and SCI-FU, as well as the award-winning memoir CHUNKY, spotlighted in The New York Times. He’s also written and illustrated two middle-grade titles for DC Comics—including SHAZAM: Thundercrack and Barkham Asylum, set in the Batman universe—and served as showrunner for the narrative podcast adaptation of HERO HOTEL on the Pinna Network.

For Yehudi, storytelling isn’t just about creating stories—it’s about building entire worlds where humor, heart, and cajones.

Projects:
Buffalo Speedway
Pantalones, TX
Uncle Grandpa
Garfield #34: His 9 Lives Part 2
Rocket Salvage
Hero Hotel
Sci-Fu: Kick it Off
DC Super Hero Girls
Fun Fun Fun World
Cat Ninja
Hero Hotel Podcast
Crime Origins Podcast
Zero Dimension
Chunky
Sci-Fu: It Takes 2
Chunky Goes to Camp
Shazam Thundercrack
Barkham Asylum (May 2024)
Viva Los Machos (coming soon)
Lost & Found (coming soon)

Manager
Ava Jamshidi
Industry Entertainment
work 323-964-9210
ava@industryentertainment.com

Literary Agent
Charlie Olsen
InkWell Management
tel: (212)922-3500, ext 2808
charlie@inkwellmanagement.com

Legal
Allison H. Binder
Stone, Genow, Smelkinson, Binder & Christopher, LLP
telephone: (310) 385-9300
ahb@sgsllp.com

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