Diego Jourdan

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

Jourdan Pereira studied Graphic Design at Universidad del Pacifico in Chile and Computer Typesetting and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and worked mainly as a comic-book artist for twenty years,[1] the first ten of which he spent illustrating licensed properties such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, Transformers: Animated, Astro Boy, Digger & Friends, Ghostbusters, and Disney/Pixar characters for American publishers like IDW Publishing, Mirage Studios, and Boom Studios; before crossing the Atlantic to Scotland’s DC Thomson where he tackled Ivy the Terrible, Lego City, and Pie Face comics for the weekly The Beano, Snooty & Scamp (Lord & Lauser) at Wendy, countless illustrations for WWE Kids Magazine, and was finally chosen as a Peter Davidson fill-in artist on The Sunday Post Fun Section comic-strips (which include Oor Wullie, The Broons, and Wee Harry).[2]

He also delved into vintage comic-book restoration and re-coloring, starting out with The Purple Smurfs (Papercutz), online Last Kiss cartoon panels, DC Comics’ Justice League International Omnibus, and collections dedicated to Uruguayan cartoonists Carlos María Federici (Detective Intergaláctico [3]), Geoffrey "Fola" Foladori (El hombre que fue una biblioteca [4]), and Emilio Cortinas (Hazañas de un viajero del tiempo [5]), all published by Uruguayan comics convention Montevideo Comics.

Between 2014 to 2015, he dedicated himself to woodcut printmaking, taking part in Japan's MI Lab Residency program, designed to teach "mokuhanga" (Japanese water-based woodblock printmaking technique) to foreign artists.[6] Four of his biblical woodcut prints were also included in the book Revealed: A Storybook Bible for Grown-ups, alongside works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Franz Marc, and Eric Gill among many others.[7]

From 2016 onward Jourdan Pereira chose to pursue a career as a nonfiction author, focusing mainly on activity and puzzle books, like his Bible Power Puzzles volume,[8] debuting as an English prose writer with the publication of his Astonishing Bathroom Reader in 2020.[9] [10]

• In January 2009, Jourdan was accepted as a regular member of the National Cartoonists Society.
• In 2011, Jourdan's 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.
• On 6 December 2014, Jourdan was awarded the Morosoli Award (Silver medal, arts category), for his contribution to Uruguayan culture.[11]

Illustrator/Cartoonist

• El Mercurio (1997-2014)
• Chirality (Central Park Media) #12 (1998)
• Legend of Lemnear (1999)
• Conozca MAS (2003)
• Tales of the TMNT (2004) # 25, 32, 40
• TMNT: Fast Forward
• TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED
• GOAL!
• MAD Magazine (Australia) (2010-2012)
• Ivy the Terrible (2010)
• Snoot & Scamp in Wendy (2010-2011)
• WWE Kids Magazine (2011-2020)
• Lego City Comics (2010-2013)
• Moshi Monsters Magazine (2011)
• Glow-in-the-dark Zombie Sticker Paper Doll (2014)
• Glow-in-the-dark Fairy Princess Sticker Paper Doll (2014)
• The Great Gatsby Deluxe Illustrated Edition (2021)

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• Online portfolio.
• Lambiek bio.
• Audio interview (in Spanish).
• I.N.D.U.C.K.S. profile.
• Video interview (in Spanish)
• Text interview (in Spanish).