Jorge Colombo

Jorge Colombo

Jorge Colombo was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He grew up reading French graphic novels, and moved to the U.S. in 1989. He has worked as a designer, photographer, but mostly as an illustrator. His urban landscapes of New York City, finger-painted on an iPhone, have been released as 20x200.com prints, as an album on Chronicle Books, and on the covers of The New Yorker.

New Yorker’s Blown Covers

Revealed

In Blown Covers, The New Yorker’s covers editor Françoise Mouly reveals some of the best never-before-seen drawings. But there are also sides to Mouly that readers know little about. She talks to one of her artists, Jorge Colombo—who became famous for the first covers that were drawn on an iPhone—about her other contributions to the art of comics. Plus, a gallery of some of the blown covers, curated by Colombo.

Jorge Colombo