Alain Sikorski

Alain Sikorski (3 February 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Belgian comics artist.

Biography
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.

He turned to comics, for which he had already had done commissioned work for Cockerill-Sambre. In 1990, approached by the scriptwriter Denis Lapière, he took over the series Tif et Tondu. He drew for Spirou magazine from 1990. Together, they produced six albums between 1993 and 1997, published by Dupuis. Subsequently and in the Whodunit genre, Sikorski and Lapière began the series , 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. In 2007, he succeeded  as the cartoonist of the humorous series  in Spirou magazine, and was the cartoonist until 2012. Afterwards he retired as a comics artist.

Sikorski died in Liège on 21 January 2025, at the age of 65.

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Category:Belgian artists
Category:Belgian writers
Category:1959 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:People from Liège