- 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"
awards = full listBenoît Sokal (born
June 28 ,1954 ) is a Belgian comic artist andvideo 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 inBrussels , together with many contemporary Belgian comic artists likeFrançois Schuiten . He began drawing for "À Suivre " in 1978. He created the "Inspector Canardo" series, featuring a depressedanthropomorphic 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 theadventure game s "Amerzone ", "Syberia " and "Syberia 2 ". He then founded his own game company,White Birds Productions , where he created the adventure game "Paradise" published throughUbisoft .Bibliography
* "
Canardo ", 16 albums, 1981- ;Casterman
* "Sanguine", withAlain Populaire ; 1988, Casterman
* "Silence, on tue!", withFrançois 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; CastermanVideo 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 theAngoulême 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_iconFootnotes
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
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