Benoît Sokal
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Benoît Sokal (born June 28, 1954) is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comic series Canardo.
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[edit] Biography
Benoît Sokal was born in Brussels in 1954.[1] He studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels, together with many contemporary Belgian comic artists like François Schuiten. He began drawing for À Suivre in 1978. He created Inspector Canardo, a depressed anthropomorphic duck detective with a penchant for cigarettes, alcohol and femmes fatales, before working on other titles.
Later he joined the software developer Microids and designed the adventure games Amerzone, Syberia and Syberia 2. He then founded his own game company called White Birds Productions, where he created the adventure game Paradise and published it at Ubisoft.
[edit] Bibliography
- Canardo, 16 albums, 1981- ; Casterman (translated in more than 10 languages)
- Sanguine, avec Alain Populaire; Casterman
- Silence, on tue!, together with François Rivière; Nathan
- Le Vieil Homme qui n'Écrivait Plus, 1 album, 1996; Casterman (translated in Dutch)
- Syberia, 1 album, 2002; Casterman (sketches and drawings for the game Syberia)
- Paradise, 2 albums, 2005-, artist Brice Bingono; Casterman
[edit] Video Games
[edit] Awards
- 1999: Prix Pixel-INA (category "Games") at the Imagina 99 festival, Monaco[2]
- 2002: GameSpy PC Adventure Game of the Year[3]
- 2003: nominated for the Award for Best Dialogue at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
[edit] Notes
- ^ De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Benoît Sokal". In België gestript, pp. 162. Tielt: Lannoo.
- ^ Overview of the INA winners
- ^ GameSpy site
