Benoît Sokal

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Benoît Sokal
Born June 28, 1954 (1954-06-28) (age 53)
Brussels, Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Area(s) artist, writer, colourist
Notable works Canardo
Awards full list

Benoît Sokal (born June 28, 1954) is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics 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 the Inspector Canardo series, featuring 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 Microïds and designed the adventure games Amerzone, Syberia and Syberia 2. He then founded his own game company, White Birds Productions, where he created the adventure game Paradise published through Ubisoft.

[edit] Bibliography

The cover of La mort douce, an Inspector Canardo adventure originally published in 1982.
The cover of La mort douce, an Inspector Canardo adventure originally published in 1982.
  • Canardo, 16 albums, 1981- ; Casterman
  • Sanguine, with Alain Populaire; 1988, Casterman
  • Silence, on tue!, with François Rivière; 1990, Nathan
  • Le Vieil Homme qui n'Écrivait Plus, 1996; Casterman
  • 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

[edit] References

Footnotes

  1. ^ De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Benoît Sokal". In België gestript, pp. 162. Tielt: Lannoo.
  2. ^ Overview of the INA winners
  3. ^ GameSpy site

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