Diego Jourdan

Diego Jourdan
File:Diegojourdan2012.jpg Diego Jourdan, 2012.
Born	Diego Jourdan Pereira (1977-10-21) 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

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

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, and Topps in the USA, as well as for children's magazines in India.

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

(Not complete)

Illustrator/Cartoonist

• Editorial Illustrator, El Mercurio (newspaper, Chile), 1997-1999
• Chirality” (Central Park Media) #12 (pinup artist)
• Legend of Lemnear (Central Park Media) #8 (pinup artist)
• “Conozca MAS” magazine, Editorial Cartoonist Editorial TELEVISA (Chile)
• Assorted ”TMNT” movie tie-in products
• TMNT: Fast Forward
• “TRANSFORMERS
• TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED
• GOAL! series Educational Illustrator, RANSOM PUBLISHING Ltd.,

United Kingdom

• MAD Magazine Editorial Cartoonist, NextMedia/DC Comics (Australia) (2010-Current)
• Ivy the Terrible in The Beano
• Snoot & Scamp in Wendy
• WWE Kids Magazine
• Lego City Comics
• Moshi Monsters Magazine (2011-current)

Writer

• Tales of the TMNT (2004) #25, 32, 40

Penciller

• Sicario (Dedalos, Chile) #1-2
• Rayen (Dedalos, Chile) #6-12
• La Ruta de los Arcanos (Ergocomics, Chile) #2
• Digital Webbing Presents #1-2-3
• Leather Jacket Guy #1-2
• Fused #2-3-4
• The License” web-comic
• K9 Magazine (Ukraine) #16-42-65
• GREAT APE #1
• Astro Boy The Movie: Official Movie Prequel #1-2-3-4
• B.A.B.E. Force: Jurassic Trailer Park Prequel/Dr. Chaos' Comic Cornucopia
• Knights Of The Dinner Table: Everknights #6
• Supernatural Law (1999) #33
• Supernatural Law Secretary Mavis #4
• Tales of the TMNT (2004) #25, 26, 30, 32, 35, 37, 40
• TMNT: The Collected Movie Books (2007)
• TMNT: The Official Movie Adaptation (2007)
• G.I. Joe: Resolute #1-2-3
• Digger & Friends #1-2-3-4
• G.I. Joe Combat Heroes: We Are G.I. Joe #1,
• Ed’s Terrestrials
• Pet Robots graphic novels'
• Ghostbusters: Past, Present And Future
• Toy Story #7

Inker

• Sicario (Dedalos, Chile) #1-2
• Rayen (Dedalos, Chile) #6-12
• B.A.B.E. Force: Jurassic Trailer Park Prequel/Dr. Chaos' Comic Cornucopia
• Ghostbusters: Past, Present And Future
• Knights Of The Dinner Table: Everknights #6
• Tales of the TMNT (2004) #25, 26, 30, 32, 35, 37, 40
• Toy Story #7

Cover Artist

• Astro Boy The Movie: Official Movie Prequel #1-2-3-4
• B.A.B.E. Force: Jurassic Trailer Park Prequel/Dr. Chaos' Comic Cornucopia
• Ghostbusters: Past, Present And Future (Cover B)
• Tales of the TMNT (2004), 'The Collected Books: Volumes Three, Four, Five', #26, 37, 40
• Toy Story #7
• Uncle Scrooge #397-398-399
• Darkwing Duck #6-9
• Moshi Monsters Magazine #11-12-13
• The Best Of The Three Stooges Comicbooks, Volume 1 (Papercutz)
• GAS3K.1 (GAS Comics)

References

• As of this edit, this article uses content from "Diego Jourdan: Professional", which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but not under the GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.

External links

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