Alain Sikorski
Alain Sikorski | |
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Born | Liège, Belgium | 3 February 1959
Died | 21 January 2025 Liège, Belgium | (aged 65)
Nationality | Belgian |
Occupation | comics artist |
Alain Sikorski (3 February 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Belgian comics artist.
Biography
[change | change source]Alain Sikorski was born in Liège on 3 February 1959 to a Belgian-Polish family. He lived until the age of sixteen in Tehran. After his studies, he completed his military service in Germany before starting a career in advertising. He opened his own studio SP Graphic2, but had to close it in 1987.[1][2]
He turned to comics, for which he had already had done commissioned work for Cockerill-Sambre.[3] In 1990, approached by the scriptwriter Denis Lapière, he took over the series Tif et Tondu.[3] He drew for Spirou magazine from 1990.[4] Together, they produced six albums between 1993 and 1997, published by Dupuis. Subsequently and in the Whodunit genre, Sikorski and Lapière began the series La Clé du mystère , whose last pages of the albums were sealed so that the reader could discover the culprit himself. The series has five albums published by the same publishers.[4] In 2007, he succeeded Stédo as the cartoonist of the humorous series Garage Isidore in Spirou magazine, and was the cartoonist until 2012.[1][4] Afterwards he retired as a comics artist.[5]
Sikorski died in Liège on 21 January 2025, at the age of 65.[6]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Alain Sikorski". lambiek.net (in Dutch). Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée (in French). Bordas. 2005. p. 864.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Sikorski". Dupuis (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Sikorski Alain dans Spirou". bdoubliees.com (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "Alain Sikorski". Art-Maniak (in French).
- ↑ "Alain Sikorski (65) overleden". stripspeciaalzaak.be (in Dutch). 22 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.