Diego Jourdan

Diego Jourdan

Diego Jourdan in Valparaiso, Chile, 2011.
Born Diego Jourdan Pereira
October 21, 1977 (1977-10-21) (age 34)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality Uruguayan
Area(s) Artist (pencils, inks, colors)
Notable works TMNT, Astro Boy, Toy Story, Uncle Scrooge, Ivy the Terrible

Diego Jourdan Pereira (usually credited as Diego Jourdan, sometimes as Diego J. Pereira) is a Uruguayan comic book artist and illustrator, residing in Santiago de Chile, Chile, and specializing in licensed properties.

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Life

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Diego moved to Santiago de Chile, Chile, in 1991, where he's lived ever since.

Career

He studied Graphic Design in Chile (Universidad del Pacifico) and Computer Typesetting and Design in the USA (NYC's F.I.T.), and has worked as an illustrator/cartoonist for over twelve years, mainly for US customers; including Simon & Schuster, IDW Publishing, Nickelodeon, Mirage Studios, Titan Magazines, and Worthwhile Books; MAD Magazine (Australia), among many others.

Among the properties and characters Diego has worked on are: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, Transformers Animated, Astro Boy, Digger & Friends, Ghostbusters, Smurfs, and Disney/Pixar characters.

After working on short lived revamped runs of Ivy the Terrible in The Beano (2010) and Snooty & Scamp (Lord & Lauser) in Wendy (2011), Diego now finds himself involved in other projects for publisher D. C. Thomson & Co., including promotional comics for the Lego City brand, and illustrations for WWE Kids Magazine.

At the same time, he continues to expand into other fields of illustration while working mainly for publishers in the UK.

Awards and Recognitions

In January 2009, he was accepted as a regular member of the prestigious National Cartoonists Society.

In 2011, his short comic Verdes, with Argentinian writer Javier Hildebrandt, won a contest in the Italian magazine MONO, and will be published in issue 10 of said magazine.

Bibliography

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United Kingdom

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