Syberia

Syberia is a graphic adventure developed and published by Microïds. It follows protagonist Kate Walker as she attempts to wrap up a sale on behalf of her law firm and travels across Europe and Russia. In addition to the main plot, the game contains a subplot conducted via calls received on Kate's cell phone. It involves Kate's deteriorating relationship with her fiancé. Artist(s): Benoît Sokal. Writer(s): Catherine Peyrot.

Paradise

In Maurienne, a distant country of jungles, soaked by the rains, King Rodon awaited the arrival of his daughter, whom he had not seen for ten years when she was still a child. But the plane that transports her from Europe is defeated by the rebels, in open war against the power of Rodon. Miraculously surviving the accident, but becoming amnesic, Rodon's daughter is gathered in the palace of the prince of the town of Mandargane. Her passport indicates her name is Ann Smith, and she lives in Geneva. Or Dr. Ann Smith is the author of a book about the "Lost Paradise Maurania", published in 1885. Paradise created by Benoit Sokal and Brice Bingono.

Inspector Canardo

Inspector Canardo is a comics series created by the Belgian artist Benoît Sokal. He was named after the French noun canard, which means "duck" or "drake". Sokal created the character Inspector Canardo after graduating from Institut Saint-Luc, at the age of 20. He first drew his comics for the magazine À Suivre but after the comic became popular, they were published as albums by Casterman.

Characters

• Canardo

The eponymous character and the protagonist of the series, Canardo is an anthropomorphic duck who has a career as a private investigator. While he is seldom seen on paid assignments, he tends to end up in dangerous situations everywhere. He is also often used as a pawn in bigger schemes because of his expendability. He suffers from severe personal problems, including vast consumption of beer to forget the unfortunate events he has gone through. While Canardo is quite skilled both in armed and unarmed combat, he is more of an everyman than a traditional hero.
Interestingly, Canardo has died, at least seemingly, several times. Most of these happen in the comics written for À Suivre. In the first incident, Canardo is about to be lynched by an angry crowd when he falls in a pit filled with urine, where he supposedly drowns. In the next comic, he is alive and well. Later, he is shot to death after being tricked by Clara. Canardo jokingly refers to this incident in the next comic, claiming that the "blood" was actually tomato sauce. In the last short comic, Canardo commits suicide, although this presumably happens chronologically after all other adventures. In the album La Fille qui rêvait d'horizon (1999), Canardo's Cadillac collides with Rasputin's motorbike, causing an explosion that is implied to have killed both Canardo and Rasputin.

• Clara

One of the first recurring characters in the series, Clara is a femme fatale whose lust for power has led her to do extreme things. In her first appearance, she uses Canardo to kill a mobster cat named Fritz, resulting in Canardo being shot. Despite the hostility between the two, they apparently have romantic feelings for each other, although this is less evident in Clara's later appearances. Like Canardo, Clara has survived several evident deaths.

• Rasputin

Rasputin is a huge, violent evil mystic who lives in Siberia. He and his band of raiders have terrorized Siberian villages for years. Rasputin is obsessed with immortality, and has his assistant prepare numerous medicines to slow down his natural aging. When he learns that one of his supposedly dead daughters is alive, he decides to abandon his potions and instead find the daughter and make her his successor. After the plan fails, he blames Canardo, sparking hostility between the two.

Kraa

This is a western-style mini-series set in the fictional land of Malaskar, wedged between Alaska & Siberia, during the early years of the 20th century. Unscrupulous businessmen have come to the region to exploit its great mineral wealth, build a megacity, and generally make an all-out assault on Nature. But Nature fights back. It's a tale of : Bonding between a human (boy) and an animal (eaglet) who have much in common. A comic by Benoit Sokal.

Kraa is the last of the sacred giant eagles which the Indian tribe of Lost Valley has revered since time immemorial.Yuma, an Indian child, is the last of his tribe, spared from a massacre only because he was away tending the wounded Kraa. They are spiritual twins, able to read each other's thoughts from any distance. Together, claw and arrow exact bloody revenge.Lost innocence because, in the process, Yuma becomes more like his eagle friend : killing quickly, without any emotion, beyond morality.