Dick Matena

Dick Matena
Born	Dick Matena 24 April 1943 (1943-04-24) (age 68) Den Haag, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Area(s)	Artist, Writer
Notable works	Storm, Tom Poes

Dick Matena (Den Haag, 24 April 1943)^[1][2] is a Dutch comics writer and cartoonist. He has also publishing under the pseudonyms A. den Dooier, John Kelly and Dick Richards.

Biography

Toonder studio's

At the age of 17 (in 1960) he starts working at the Toonder studio's as volunteer. In the beginning he is helping with the drawingprojects of Tom Poes (1962–1963) and Panda (1961–1968).

In 1968 his first own drawn comic appears in the comic magazine Pep.

Freelance period

In 1964 Dick Matena starts working as a freelancer. In the beginning mainly for the Toonder studio's. He draws he own comic Polletje Pluim.

For Pep he draws De Argonautjes (1968–1973) and Ridder Roodhart (1969–1971). He writes scenarios for the Macaroni's (1971–1975) and Blook (1972–1973).

During the period he is working for the cartoon magazine Eppo he writes four scenario's for the comic Storm (1978–1980) and under his pseudonym Dick Richards eight scenario's for the comic De Partners (1976–1984), drawn by Carry Brugman.

In 1977 Matena draws his first realistic comic Virl.

Foreign Period

From 1982 until 1984 he lives in Spain working for Selleciones Illustrades.

For the comic magazine Titanic he makes two stories of starship.

After his move to Belgium he creates the comics De laatste dagen van Adgar Allan Poe, Gauguin en Van Gogh and Mozart & Casanova.

Spin-off Storm and Beyond

On stories of Martin Lodewijk Dick Matena draws three spin-off comics of Storm (Don Lawrence). He is using his pseudonym John Kelly at first, the last comic is published with his own name. The serie of these Storm albums are called Kronieken van de Tussentijd.

In 1997 he starts again with the comic Tom Poes. Two stories are published in the Dutch vesion of the magazine Donald Duck.

Comics of Dutch litarature books

Matena is drawing comics of classical Dutch literature books. For one of these comcis he won the Bronzen Adhemar award.

Awards

• Stripschapsprijs for his complete comic work 1986^[3][4]
• Bronzen Adhemar for his comic work of the book De Avonden 2003^[5]

Bibliography

De Argonautjes (Lo Hartog van Banda)

1 - Het orakel van Delphi (1970)

2 - Het eerste avontuur van de Argonautjes (1976)

3 - De Olympische vlam / Het Labyrinth (1978)

4 - Het zwaard van Damocles (1978)

5 - De strijd om de ronde tafel / De kwelling van Tantalus (1979)

6 - De held van Sparta (1980)

Storm (Don Lawrence)

The Chronicles of the Deep World

3 - The People of the Desert (Het Volk van de Woestijn) (1979)

4 - The Green Hell (De Groene Hel) (1980)

5 - The Battle for Earth (De Strijd om de Aarde) (1980)

6 - The Secret of the Nitron Rays (Het Geheim van de Nitronstralen) (1981)

Chronicles of Meanwhile

1 - The Voyager Virus (Het Voyager Virus) (1996)

2 - The Dallas Paradox (De Dallas Paradox) (1997)

3 - The Stargorger (De Sterrenvreter) (1998)

4 - Klein Space (De Ruimte van Klein) (unfinished and unpublished)

Starship (Sterrenschip)

1 - De jacht op het wezekind (1987)

2 - De verlosser (1988)

Virl

1 - Exile to Cion (Verbanning naar Cion) (1979)

2 - Quest for Terra (Speurtocht naar Terra) (1981)

Alias Ego

1 - Vlucht uit de richel (1993)

2 - De valse goden (1995)

The evenings (De Avonden) (Gerard Reve)

Part 1 (2003)

Part 2 (2003)

Part 3 (2004)

Part 4 (2004)

Crew Cut (Kort Amerikaans) (Jan Wolkers)

Part 1 (2006)

Part 2 (2007)

One Shots

The last days of E.A. Poe (De laatste dagen van E.A. Poe) (1988)

Gauguin and van Gogh (Gauguin en van Gogh) (1990)

Sartre & Hemingway (1992)

Het Hanzevirus

Christmas carol (Charles Dickens) (2004)

Cheese (Kaas) (Willem Elsschot) (2008)

Will o' the Wisp (Het dwaallicht) (Willem Elsschot) (2008)

References

1. ^ "Biografie Dick Matena". Lambiek. http://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/matena.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-10. 
2. ^ "Biografie Dick Matena". Zilverendolfijn. http://www.zilverendolfijn.nl/zz/sa/1/NL/MATENA/c/zd.html. Retrieved 2010-10-10. 
3. ^ "Winners Stripschap price". Stripschap. http://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/de-stripschapprijs.php. Retrieved 2010-10-10. 
4. ^ "Stripschapprijs". Alles op een rij. http://www.allesopeenrij.nl/lijsten/boeken/strip_prijs.html. Retrieved 2010-10-10. 
5. ^ "Bronzen Adhemar Award winners". Strip Turnhout. http://www.stripturnhout.be/projecten/bronzen-adhemar/. Retrieved 2010-10-10. 

• De Eppo-index
• Rob van Eyck (1979). Matena, Dick (ps. A. den Dooier, Dick Richard). In: Wordt Vervolgd: Striplexicon der Lage Landen (Evelien en Kees Kousemaker, eds.). Het Spectrum, Utrecht.
• Rob van Eyck (1987). Matena Dick. In: Kunst en Grafische Vernieuwing in het Europees Beeldverhaal. De Buck, Brussel.

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Name	Matena, Dick
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Date of birth	24 April 1943
Place of birth	Den Haag, Netherlands
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