Torsten Kyon

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Torsten Kyon

Torsten Kyon alias Tordi (* 26. May 1959 in Bottrop ) is a German comic - artist , illustrator and art teacher .

Life

After graduating from the Vestischen Gymnasium in Bottrop in 1979 , Kyon studied art at the University of Essen from 1981 to 1988 . Since 1980 he has been a permanent member of the Künstlerbund Bottrop eV, since 1991 he has been working as an art teacher.

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From 2003 he worked with the publishing house for Ruhrgebietsliteratur Henselowsky Boschmann . Torsten Kyon illustrated two books for the publisher: The Bollerrad has to roll, the Knicker, he has to roll by Helmut Spiegel and Alfons & Mieze - tell me something nice from Beni. He illustrates two more books together with other draftsmen: Will I learn you ma wat? by Dr. Antonia Cervinski-Querenburg and Ewig Gelsenkirchen by Daniel Twardowski.

Torsten Kyon

From this work the idea for a Ruhr area comic developed. Tordi invents the character of the miner and pigeon fancier Jupp Turteltaub and wrote the first scenario for a comic book adventure entitled Turteltaub and the secret of the browns . He placed three dwarfs from the depths of the mine at the side of his hero. Short strips were created from the first drafts. In addition, the pigeons themselves developed into heroes and became an integral part of the strips.

In 2006 one of the largest specialist journals for the pigeon sport, Die Brieftaube of the German carrier pigeon fanciers' association , took notice of him and has published a lovebird strip every week since 2006. The strips are now appearing in another specialist magazine and a regional newspaper.

Since 2007 he has been working with Emons Verlag Cologne, which also published the first comic book, The Little Man, His Race Horses . Its component in turn is the satirical pigeon fairy tale With a leg in soup .

In 2009 there was a collaboration with the Gong publishing house in Ismaning . Since June 2009 (issue 27) the pigeon cartoons have appeared weekly in the program magazines Gong (magazine) and Bild & Funk. Since issue 43/2009 the cartoons have also appeared in Super TV magazine, also from Gong-Verlag.

In November 2017, Kyons Turteltaub Verlag published the second 96-page comic book Zwei Tauben in New York .

The only comic about pigeons and their breeders

After François Walthéry “The Old Blue” from 1972 (published in Germany in 1992) with six short stories about a pigeon fancier, Tordi draws the only comic about pigeons and their fanciers in a row. In addition, the pigeons play a more important role for him than for Walthery. They talk, live and act ... in their own pigeon world, with their own stories and problems.

The illustrators have a similar biographical background, both illustrators grew up with pigeons. Father and grandfather were both pigeon fanciers.

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SURNAME Kyon, Torsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tordi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop