Jorge Vinatea Reinoso

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Jorge Vinatea Reinoso (April 22, 1900 - July 15, 1931) was a Peruvian painter.

Reinoso was born in Arequipa. His first exhibition was in 1917, and by 1918 he had moved to Lima. There, from 1919 to 1924, he was taught by painter Daniel Hernández at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. He worked for a while as an art critic and caricaturist and in 1925 attained a teaching job at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.

As a cartoonist, in 1922 he created the first peruvian comic strip series to use speech balloons: Travesuras de Serrucho y Volatín.

Reinoso died in his hometown of Arequipa.