Share Jordan's creative journey through his artworks and artist diary.

Jordan Mechner, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia, is also an artist. His pen-and-ink drawings offer an intimate window into the creative process that inspires his video games, books, and films.

From time to time, Jordan releases artwork in exclusive limited-edition signed and numbered giclée prints. Details on current availability are below.

Jordan has also shared his personal artist diaries in a limited first-edition facsimile printing (200 copies each) of Year 1, 2 and 3 in France. Each book covers one year of Jordan's sketchbook journal following his move to France from L.A. in 2016 for a video game project.

Replay

Jordan's newly released graphic novel "Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family" is his first complete book as writer/artist. A 320-page epic interweaving Jordan's video game career (the development of Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) with the saga of three generations of his family through two 20th-century wars, Replay won wide acclaim on its April 2023 release in France.

The English edition will be published by First Second Books on March 19, 2024. You can read reviews, excerpts, and Jordan's commentary (and pre-order a signed copy of the English edition) on the Replay book page.

Art Books

Artist Diary:
Year 1 in France

$27

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Artist Diary:
Year 2 in France

$27

Artist Diary:
Year 3 in France

$27

Artworks

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A Faithful Friend

$180

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Bones

$180

Dagger

$200

Cliffhanger

$190

Departure

$200

Promenade des Anglais

$170

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Preview

In Jordan's Words: When I Stopped Drawing

When I was a kid, I spent as much time as I could drawing... until I got my first Apple II. Old interests got swept aside to make way for my new obsession: making games. Over the next three decades of writing, programming, and other activities, I almost forgot that drawing had once been a primary means of self-expression.

It came back to me in 2008. My artist friend (and collaborator on Templar) Alex Puvilland gave me a Moleskine notebook, black Pigma Micron pen, and no eraser. I started drawing people in the street, at cafés and airports, GDCs and live-model workshops. (And on the Prince of Persia movie set. There were camels!)

I found the tactile, no-undo, Zen aspect of pen and ink brush on paper a soul-refreshing break from screen time. Other than showing my sketchbooks to friends and family, and an occasional snap-post on Instagram, I had no plans to take my personal art public. But through 15 years of daily practice, my drawing has evolved into a new vocation. It's opened creative doors I couldn't have imagined when I (re)started. I'm excited to start sharing the results.

I've worked closely with Tomoe, a local fine-art printer in Montpellier, on high-quality limited-edition giclée prints of selected drawings. When available, artworks can be purchased from this page, above.

In January 2023, I began a series of "author's tribute" artworks inspired by my video games (starting with Prince of Persia), as a companion project to my graphic novel Replay. You can see the full series of "Replay" art prints to date in the gallery above, or download them for free as desktop and mobile wallpapers from the Library.

The gallery below shows a bit of my recent sketchbook and life-drawing work, as reproduced in the books Years 1-3 in France.