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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 203,167 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Benoît Sokal is the 67th most popular comic artist (up from 96th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 511th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Comic Artist.

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  • 200k

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  • 51.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Benoît Sokal ranks 67 out of 174. Before him are Guido Crepax, Masami Kurumada, Mitsuru Adachi, Chica Umino, Machiko Hasegawa, and Marjane Satrapi. After him are Richard F. Outcault, Vicar, Romano Scarpa, Robert Crumb, Takehiko Inoue, and Kazuo Koike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Benoît Sokal ranks 142. Before him are Vitas Gerulaitis, Kim Jung-sook, Dennis Haysbert, Haluk Bilginer, Tallis Obed Moses, and Simonetta Stefanelli. After him are Abdelaziz Djerad, Didier Six, Kim Pyong-il, Leung Chun-ying, Thomas de Maizière, and Larry Wall. Among people deceased in 2021, Benoît Sokal ranks 285. Before him are Orlando Martínez, Pavol Molnár, Dragan Pantelić, Lee Evans, Aleksandar Shalamanov, and Vyacheslav Vedenin. After him are Justo Tejada, Marc Ferro, Almudena Grandes, Jim Steinman, Yevhen Marchuk, and Lars Norén.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Benoît Sokal ranks 388 out of 1,019. Before him are Mark Eyskens (1933), Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium (1956), Justus Sustermans (1597), Louis Michel (1947), Chrodegang (715), and Diane von Fürstenberg (1946). After him are Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Franky Vercauteren (1956), Eugène Boch (1855), Walter Godefroot (1943), Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830), and Paul Janssen (1926).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Belgium

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

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