Diego Jourdan

Diego Jourdan Pereira was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. He now resides in Santiago, Chile. Since the 1990s, he has worked as a professional illustrator, comic book artist, and cartoonist for companies such as Simon & Schuster Publishing, Felix The Cat Productions Inc., Mirage Group, Blue Dream Studios, Mongoose Publishing, Alias Comics, Image Comics, and MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research among others.

His work has been published in countries such as Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, England, and the Ukraine, and graced many household characters such as 'Felix The Cat', 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', 'G.I. Joe', 'Transformers Animated', 'Astro Boy The Movie: Official Movie Prequel', 'Digger & Friends', and 'Ghostbusters'.

Since 2010, he is drawing Disney/Pixar comics for Boom! Studios, and gag cartoons for the Australian edition of MAD Magazine. In addition, he is a digital retoucher of 'Smurfs' artwork for a US edition of Peyo's classic albums.

Between October 2010 and February 2011, Jourdan drew new gags starring 'Ivy the Terrible' for the British comics magazine Beano.

Since then, he has been drawing the 'Lord und Lauser' comic for the German girls' magazine Wendy through DC Thomson, succeeding British artist Bill Ritchie. He was also assigned to draw comics for LEGO.

He does a monthly page in Peru's Dedo Medio magazine with Javi Hildebrandt since 2011. Jourdan draws his inspiration from Dutch and Flemish comics, especially the work of Peter de Wit and Hanco Kolk.