Benoît Sokal

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Benoît Sokal (2010)

Benoît Sokal (born June 28, 1954 in Brussels ) is a Belgian comic artist and author of computer games .

Life

Sokal studied comics at the Brussels Art School Saint-Luc and then drew for the magazine (à suivre) . 15 short stories from the series Ein Fall für Inspektor Canardo appear here for the first time in 1978 , initially without color. The main character is a somewhat melancholy duck who looks like a cross between Humphrey Bogart and Daffy Duck with her trench coat . It was not until 1981 that he released the first complete album volume Der aufrechte Hund , which was awarded the "Prix de la Ville Paris". To this day he has published volumes of this series.

Sokal then began work on the Marcel Boudard series and also drew for an issue of the Métal hurlant magazine . From 1980 he returned to Inspector Canardo and created a series of colored albums, which at the time was published in German by Carlsen Verlag , today by Schreiber & Leser . With the graphic novel Sanguine , which was published under the title Wie Blätter im Sturm by Carlsen, Sokal showed realistic drawings for the first time in 1987. The comic was created together with the author Alain Populaire and takes place during the Thirty Years War. With Le Vieil Homme qui n'Écrivait Plus , a story that is set in 1944, he realized another comic in 1995 that was kept entirely in black and white.

In the early 1990s, he began to look at the possibilities in the field of computer games. After the adventure games Amerzone , Syberia and Syberia II were produced by the French company Microïds , he founded the production company White Birds Productions in August 2003 in order to be able to realize future projects himself. The computer games Paradise and Sinking Island were produced before the company closed in January 2011.

In April 2009 the three-part comic Paradise appeared in German in a volume, which he made with Brice Bingono . It is based on the computer game of the same name. In 2011 the Splitter publishing house published its first edition of the Kraa comic series , it was published under the title The Lost Valley . The second volume appeared in 2012 as Der Schatten des Adlers , the third volume Weißglühendes Gewitter was published in German in 2014.

At the end of the 2010s, Sokal dealt again with computer games. Microïds had meanwhile been taken over by the French publisher Anuman Interactive , who produced and published the adventure Syberia 3 with Sokal in 2017 . At the Gamescom entertainment fair , the publisher announced another Syberia adventure from Sokal in 2019.

Works

comics

  • 1978: A Case for Inspector Canardo (series)
  • 1987: Like leaves in a storm
  • 1990: Silence, on do! (with François Rivière )
  • 1995: Le Vieil Homme qui n'Écrivait Plus
  • 2009: Paradise
  • 2011: Kraa - The lost valley
  • 2012: Kraa - The Eagle's Shadow
  • 2014: Kraa - incandescent thunderstorm
  • 2017: Aquarica (with François Schuiten )

Computer games

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime comic: Depressed duck detective. Retrieved July 29, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Xoomic- portrait of Sokal. Retrieved July 29, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Adventure-Treff.de: Microïds announces new Syberia title. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ AWN.com: "Bunny" is a big winner at Imagina. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ GameSpy's PC Adventure Game of the Year: Syberia ( Memento from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sokal, Benoît
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels