Benoît Sokal
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Born | Brussels, Belgium | 28 June 1954
Died | 28 May 2021 | (aged 66)
Nationality | Belgian |
Area(s) | Writer, Artist, Colourist |
Notable works | Inspector Canardo Syberia |
Awards | full list |
Benoît Sokal (28 June 1954 – 28 May 2021) was a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series Inspector Canardo, and the adventure game series Syberia.
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 magazine 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 (published by Microïds, the adventure game label of Anuman Interactive). He then founded his own game company, White Birds Productions, where he created the adventure game Paradise published through Ubisoft.
He died on 28 May 2021 after a battle with long-term illness.[2][3][4][5]
Bibliography[]
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- Inspector Canardo, 23 albums, 1981- ; Casterman
- Sanguine, with ; 1988, Casterman
- Silence, on tue!, with ; 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)
- Last King of Africa (2008) (Nintendo DS version of Paradise)
- Sinking Island (2007)
- (2008) (canceled)
- Syberia III (2017)
- Syberia: The World Before (2021)
Awards[]
- 1999: Prix Pixel-INA (category "Games") at the Imagina 99 festival, Monaco[6]
- 2002: GameSpy PC Adventure Game of the Year[7]
- 2003: nominated for the Award for Best Dialogue at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
References[]
- ^ De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Benoît Sokal". In België gestript, pp. 162. Tielt: Lannoo.
- ^ "Benoît Sokal". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
- ^ Décès de Benoît Sokal, le père de la BD Canardo et des jeux vidéo Syberia et L'Amerzone
- ^ "Mourning Benoît Sokal". Microids. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
- ^ Le Monde: Le dessinateur belge Benoît Sokal, créateur de l’inspecteur Canardo, est mort
- ^ Overview of the INA winners Archived 8 January 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ GameSpy site Archived 14 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
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- Sokal publications in (A SUIVRE) BDoubliées (in French)
- Sokal albums Bedetheque (in French)
- Benoît Sokal biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
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- Artists from Brussels
- Belgian comics writers
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