Diego Jourdan

Diego Jourdan

Diego Jourdan, 2014
Born Diego Jourdan Pereira
October 21, 1977
Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality Uruguayan
Area(s) Artist (pencils, inks, colors)
Notable works
 TMNT, Astro Boy, Toy Story, Uncle Scrooge, Ivy the Terrible, Pieface

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.

Life

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

Career

Jourdan studied Graphic Design at Universidad del Pacifico in Chile and Computer Typesetting and Design at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, 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, Worthwhile Books, and 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. He has also worked on sketch cards for companies like Topps, on properties such as Star Wars and Mars Attacks.

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 DC Thomson, including promotional comics for the Lego City brand, and illustrations for WWE Kids Magazine.

During 2013, he worked for Tinkle magazine in India. Apart from the comics aforementioned comics projects, Jourdan continues to expand into other fields of illustration while working mainly for publishers in the UK.

New comic projects, as of 2014, include inking Bob Weber Jr. on his strip Slylock Fox & Comics For Kids;[1] and restoring and re-coloring vintage comic panels for online publication Last Kiss.[2] Among his other recent restoration projects are books collecting selected works of Uruguayan comic creators Carlos María Federici (Detective Intergaláctico)[3] and Geoffrey "Fola" Foladori (Fola: el hombre que fue una biblioteca),[4] both published by Uruguayan comics convention Montevideo Comics.

Additional work Jourdan has recently done for Uruguay includes the cover of the children's science fiction graphic novel Crononautas,[5][6] for GAS Comics, the same small print publisher he did the cover of GAS3K.1 (2011) for.

Outside of comics, Jourdan works as an illustrator for the Argentinian edition of Rolling Stone magazine. In his free time, Diego is now pursuing his interest in art printmaking.[7][8]

Awards and Recognitions

Bibliography

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Illustrator/Cartoonist

United Kingdom

Writer

Penciller

Inker

Cover Artist

References

  1. ↑ http://diegojourdanpro.carbonmade.com/about
  2. ↑ The Cartoonist, February 2013
  3. ↑ http://www.uypress.net/uc_40423_1.html
  4. ↑ http://brecha.com.uy/index.php/cultura/vueltas-de-montevideo/3896-gente-ilustrada
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "GAS Comics: Se vienen los Crononautas!". gascomics.blogspot.com.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "crononautas.cf". crononautas.cf.
  7. ↑ Diego Jourdan Pereira. "Jourdan Woodcuts". jourdanwoodcuts.blogspot.com.
  8. ↑ "Diego Jourdan Pereira". Aguafuerte Taller.
  9. ↑ http://www.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/62908/2/mecweb/premios_morosoli?parentid=44653
  10. ↑ "Entregan premios Morosoli 2014 a personalidades de la cultura uruguaya - Noticias Uruguay LARED21". LARED21. 8 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "Comics UK - View topic - Ivy has a new artist". comicsuk.co.uk.
  12. ↑ "GAS Comics: GAS3K: Descarga Digital". gascomics.blogspot.com.

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