'L'Ordre Impair'.
Paul Teng Ping Ya is a Dutch comic artist, best-known for his realistic historical comics. Born in 1955 in Rotterdam, he studied Cultural Antropology in Amsterdam, but broke off his studies to devote all his time to drawing comics. He debuted with his comic about the Apache indian 'Delgadito', published in four black-and-white books by Hans Matla's publishing house Panda between 1981 and 1984. Since 1982, he was also present in the comic magazine Wordt Vervolgd with several historical comics.
'Shane'.
In 1986, Casterman published Teng's 'Libertair Intermezzo', a story set during the Spanish Civil War. This was followed by 'De Vrienden van Igor Steiner' in 1989, a comic about the period after the Russian Revolution. Teng then made two more albums about Russian history in cooperation with writer Vladimir Volkoff for Le Lombard, 'Sint-Vladimir - De Stralende Zon' (1992) and 'Alexander Nevsky' (1994).
'De Aapjeskooi' (from Tina).
For the same publisher, Teng teamed up with writer Jean-François di Giorgio to create the medieval adventurer 'Shane'. Five books were published between 1998 and 2002. Between 2004 and 2009, he made the series 'L'Ordre Impair', scripted by Rudi Miel and Cristina Cuadra.
'Het Meisje met de Rode Haren' (Tina, 2006).
Teng has drawn various stories from scripts by Gerard Leever and Frank Jonker, among other writers, for girl's magazine Tina between 2002 and 2008. These include two indian stories and a comic about Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, called 'Het Meisje met de Rode Haren'. He has also made an comic for the introduction of each chapter in Jan Paul Schutten's children's book 'Kinderen van Amsterdam'. Teng considers his collaboration with Jean van Hamme on the graphic novel 'Le Télescope' in 2008 one of the highlights in his career. Teng and Schutten worked together again on the historical comic 'Jan van Scorel - Sede Vacante 1523' in 2013.
In 2022, he participated in the collective graphic documentary comic 'Bestemming: Canada', published by Scratch Books in collaboration with the Dutch consul in Canada. The book tells the story of ten Dutch emigrants who tried to find their luck in the Canadian wilderness. The other contributors were Erik de Graaf, Floor de Goede, Aimée de Jongh, Hanco Kolk, Erik Kriek, Mei-Li Nieuwland, Jordi Peters, Emma Ringelberg and Anne Staal.
On 9-10 March 2013, during the Stripdagen in Haarlem, Paul Teng was awarded the Stripschapprijs.
'L'Ordre Impair'.