Paul Teng Ping Ya (born 6 March 1955) is a Dutch

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writer and artist. He writes and draws mainly realistic historical comics.

Early life

Teng was born

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

. After high-school he studied

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Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

. His interest in comic books started early. He stopped his study to start writing comic books. After reading

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books he became fascinated with the history of

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in North America. His first comic had as a main figure the

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Indian Delgadito. ''Delgadito'' is a black and white series of 4 issues. Teng developed the series' scenario. In 1986 the comic ''Libertair Intermezzo'' issued. The comic takes place during the

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. The comic is about a researcher in current time and a resistance group in the 1930s planning attacks against the establishment. In 1986 another historical comic issued, ''De vrienden van Igor Steiner'' (eng: The friends of Igor Steiner). This comic and the comic ''

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'' (2 issues) are about Russia. The comic ''

'' was his first comic in color. From 1998 onwards he wrote his series ''Shane''. The series takes plays in the European

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, the 12th century. The scenario was written by Jean Francois Di Giorgio. The series contains 5 issues. From 2004 until 2008 the comic series ''De oneven orde'' appeared. This has a complicated scenario that switches between current time and the Middle Ages. The series is about a mystical manuscript that is about death and destruction. The scenario's are written by Rudi Miel and Christina Cuadra. The series contains 5 issues. Paul Teng wrote many short stories for the girls-magazine ''Tina''. One of the issues is about ''

The Girl with the Red Hair ''The Girl With the Red Hair'' (original title in Dutch: ''Het meisje met het rode haar'') is a popular biographical novel by Dutch author Theun de Vries (1907–2005). It was first published in 1956, and has been reprinted many times. ''The ...

'' (a book from Teun de Vries) about the Dutch underground resistance fighter

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during the

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. He made a short comic introduction for each chapter of the children's book ''Kinderen van Amsterdam'', a history book for children about children who played a role in the history of

. This book was written by

Jan Paul Schutten Jan Paul Schutten (born 30 November 1970) is a Dutch writer of children's literature. Career Schutten's debut book ''Ruik eens wat ik zeg, de taal van dieren en planten'' was awarded in 2004 with the Vlag en Wimpel award. The book was illustr ...

and won the

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a Dutch award for the best and original children's book issued in 2008. After this project he did the same for the book ''Kinderen van Nederland''. Together with

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who wrote the scenario, he issued the one-shot ''De Telescoop'' (eng: The Telescope) in 2008. The comic is based on a novel written by Van Hamme in 1992. The story takes place in the current time and is about five old men and their relation with a call-girl. Teng is currently working on a sequel of his comic ''De vrienden van Igor Steiner''. He is writing the scenario. The story takes place 8 years after the previous issue at the border of

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and

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during the

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. His other project is an assignment of the

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in Utrecht about the art of painting there. He is working together with

. The main character in this series is the painter

Jan van Scorel Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Roman ...

, the museum has an art hall named after van Scorel and his biography has many issues to make an interesting comic about. This historical book is due in 2013, the 300th anniversary of the

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. In 2012 was announced that he wins the

Stripschapprijs The Stripschapprijs is a Dutch prize awarded to List of comic creators, comic creators for their entire body of work. It is awarded annually by the ''Stripschap'', the Dutch Society of comics fans, since 1974. The prize is non-pecuniary, but is con ...

2013 for his complete oeuvre.

Bibliography

Paul Teng illustrated Comics and Children's books.

Comic books

* Delgadito (writer: Paul Teng, artwork: Paul Teng) # De keuze van de adelaar (1981, ) # Herinnering aan een Rebel (1981, ) # Bosque Redondo (1982, ) # De cirkel geschonden (1984, ) * Libertair intermezzo (1986, writer: Paul Teng, artwork: Paul Teng, ) * De vrienden van Igor Steiner (1989, writer: Paul Teng, artwork: Paul Teng, ) * Sint Vladimir - De stralende zon (1992, writer:

, artwork: Paul Teng, ) * Alexander Nevsky (1994, writer:

, artwork: Paul Teng, ) * Shane (writer:

Jean-François Di Giorgio Jean-François () is a French given name. Notable people bearing the given name include: * Jean-François Carenco (born 1952), French politician * Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist * Jean-François Clervoy (born 1958), ...

, artwork: Paul Teng) # De meedogenloze keizerin (1998, ) # De adelaarsrots (1999, ) # Schijngestalten (2000, ) # Albane (2001, ) # Het toernooi (2002, ) * De Oneven orde (writer: Cristina Cuadra &

Rudi Miel Rudi may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Rudi (name), a given name, nickname and surname; includes a list of people and fictional characters with the name * * Places *Rudi (Tanzanian ward) *Rudi, Iran (disambiguation) *Rud ...

, artwork: Paul Teng) # Antwerpen 1585 (2004, ) # Sevilla 1600 (2005, ) # Roma 1644 (2006, ) # Parijs 1791 (2007, ) # Het laatste hoofdstuk (2008, ) * De telescoop (2009, writer:

Jean van Hamme Jean Van Hamme (born 16 January 1939) is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including ''Histoire sans héros'', '' Thorgal'', '' XIII'' and ''Largo Winch''. Biography ...

, Artwork: Paul Teng, ) * Jan van Scorel - Sede Vacante 1523 (2013, writer:

, Artwork: Paul Teng, )

Children's books

* Kinderen van Amsterdam (2007, writer:

, Artwork: Paul Teng, ) * Kinderen van Nederland (2008, writer:

, Artwork: Paul Teng, )

Awards

* 2008 - De Gouden Griffel * 2013 -

Nominated * 2010 - nominated for Best Dutch Language Comic at the Prix Saint-Michel

References

* Stripschrift, ''Issue 156'', February 1982 * Zozolala, ''Issue 56'', April–May 1991 {{DEFAULTSORT:Teng, Paul 1955 births Living people Artists from Rotterdam Dutch comics writers Dutch comics artists Winners of the Stripschapsprijs