Benoît Sokal

Infobox Comics creator
name = Benoît Sokal


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birthdate = birth date and age|1954|6|28
location = Brussels, Belgium
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nationality = Belgian
area = artist, writer, colourist
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notable works = "Canardo"
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Benoît Sokal (born June 28, 1954) is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series "Canardo".

Biography

Benoît Sokal was born in Brussels in 1954.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Benoît Sokal". In België gestript, pp. 162. Tielt: Lannoo.] 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.

Bibliography

* "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

Video games

* "Amerzone" (1999)
* "Syberia" (2002)
* "Syberia II" (2004)
* "Paradise" (2006)
* "Sinking Island" (2007)
* "Nikopol" (2008)
* "Aquarica" (2008)
* "Last King of Africa (2008)

Awards

* 1999: Prix Pixel-INA (category "Games") at the Imagina 99 festival, Monaco [ [http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=Awards&newsitem_no=513 Overview of the INA winners] ]
* 2002: GameSpy PC Adventure Game of the Year [ [http://archive.gamespy.com/goty2002/pc/index10.shtml GameSpy site] ]
* 2003: nominated for the Award for Best Dialogue at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France

References

* [http://bdoubliees.com/asuivre/auteurs5/sokal.htm Sokal publications in "(A SUIVRE)"] BDoubliées fr_icon
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-243-BD-Sokal-Beno%EEt.html Sokal albums] Bedetheque fr_icon

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.benoitsokal.com/ Benoît Sokal official site] fr_icon
* [http://www.whitebirdsproductions.com/ White Birds Productions official site] Benoît Sokal's company
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/s/sokal_b.htm Benoît Sokal biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia