COMIC ARTIST

Benoît Sokal

1954 - 2021

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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 Syberia adventure game franchise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoît Sokal has received more than 209,189 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Benoît Sokal is the 61st most popular comic artist (up from 66th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 388th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Comic Artist.

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  • 20

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  • 7.21

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  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Benoît Sokal ranks 61 out of 226Before him are Marjane Satrapi, Enki Bilal, Marco Rota, Saul Steinberg, Romano Scarpa, and Jerry Siegel. After him are Art Spiegelman, E. C. Segar, Takehiko Inoue, Joe Shuster, Jacques Tardi, and Yoshito Usui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Benoît Sokal ranks 144Before him are Anish Kapoor, Patty Hearst, Luis Arconada, Kim Jung-sook, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Scott Bakula. After him are Haluk Bilginer, Branko Ivanković, Brigitte Lin, Simonetta Stefanelli, Larry Wall, and Peter MacNicol. Among people deceased in 2021, Benoît Sokal ranks 198Before him are Albert Vanhoye, Benigno Aquino III, Anne Buydens, Arlene Dahl, Etel Adnan, and Cicely Tyson. After him are Jovenel Moïse, Anerood Jugnauth, Françoise Arnoul, Vasily Lanovoy, Alan Lancaster, and Hugo Maradona.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Benoît Sokal ranks 392 out of 1,190Before him are Sœur Emmanuelle (1908), Joseph Cardijn (1882), Willy Mairesse (1928), Godfrey I, Count of Namur (1068), Victor Boin (1886), and Alof de Wignacourt (1547). After him are Briek Schotte (1919), Raoul Lambert (1944), Maria of Brabant, Holy Roman Empress (1190), Daniël Heinsius (1580), Lucien Buysse (1892), and Herman Van Springel (1943).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Belgium

Among comic artists born in Belgium, Benoît Sokal ranks 5Before him are Hergé (1907), Peyo (1928), Morris (1923), and André Franquin (1924). After him are Jean Van Hamme (1939), Hermann Huppen (1938), Jean-Michel Charlier (1924), Jijé (1914), Willy Vandersteen (1913), and Greg (1931).