Ernesto Padrón Blanco is a Cuban graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist, scriptwriter and director of animated cartoons. After studying Journalism at the University of Havana, he has worked as chief propaganda of the José Marti youth organization, and as director of children's magazines like Bijirita and Zunzún. He also wrote and drew the comic strip 'Yeyín' (Zunzún, 1983) and wrote many scripts for Orestes Suárez Lemus. He has taught several courses and workshops in graphic design, scriptwriting and computer animation, and is a film director with the ICAIC animation studios.