Le Désert des Molgraves

Paradise #2

by Benoît Sokal, Brice Bingono

Suite des aventures d’Ann Smith au pays de Mauranie. La saison des orages amorcée lors du premier épisode est désormais entrée dans sa phase la plus active ; un mois, peut-être deux, à subir des précipitations massives, soulignées par les vols de papillons blancs qui semblent en être l’émanation. Séduite malgré tout par cet étrange pays à l’atmosphère si particulière, la jeune femme cherche à percer le mystère du léopard noir, qui semble indissolublement lié à son propre destin… Elle prend la route du sud, au volant d’un antique camion, avec l’animal à son bord…

Genres: Comics, Bande Dessinée

48 pages, Hardcover

First published October 4, 2006

About the author

Benoît Sokal was born on June 28, 1954 in Brussels, Belgium. He is most famous for his comic strip series Canardo. Sokal originally studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc De Bruxells, an art university in Brussels, where many other modern Belgian comic artists also studied, such as François Schuite, who is currently working with Sokal on a White Birds Productions game.

Sokal drew a variety of comics but by far the most popular is the Inspector Canardo series which centres on an anthropomorphic duck who possesses the same characteristics as many classic comics and stories revolving around police inspectors but in a more noir style. He then went on to create three more comic strips, involving collaborating with François Rivière and Alain Populaire.

Sokal worked with game developers at Microïds, creating and subsequently releasing the Syberia series, as well as Amerzone. Microïds later merged with MC2 France to form MC2-Microïds. He is now working for White Birds Productions who have released Paradise and are currently developing at least one title.