Benoît Sokal
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| Benoît Sokal | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 June 1954 Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist, Colourist |
| Notable works | Inspector Canardo |
| Awards | full list |
| Official website | |
Benoît Sokal (born June 28, 1954 in Brussels) is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series Inspector 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 II. He then founded his own game company, White Birds Productions, where he created the adventure game Paradise published through Ubisoft.
[edit] Bibliography
- Inspector 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
- Amerzone (1999)
- Syberia (2002)
- Syberia II (2004)
- Paradise (2006)
- Last King of Africa (2008) (Nintendo DS version of Paradise)
- Sinking Island (2007)
- Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals (2008)
- Aquarica (2008) (unreleased)
- Syberia III (June 2010)
[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] References
- ^ De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Benoît Sokal". In België gestript, pp. 162. Tielt: Lannoo.
- ^ Overview of the INA winners
- ^ GameSpy site
[edit] External links
- Sokal publications in (A SUIVRE) BDoubliées (French)
- Sokal albums Bedetheque (French)
- Benoît Sokal official site (French)
- White Birds Productions official site Benoît Sokal's company
- Benoît Sokal biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
