Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido. Dark Horse, $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59582-931-3
If Walt Disney ever made an adult-themed, anthropomorphic Philip Marlowe movie, it might resemble this popular series. In this fourth outing for the titular feline detective, Blacksad is enlisted to locate a missing, drug-addicted blues musician in...
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Juan Diaz Canales, Author, Juanjo Guarnido, Illustrator . Ibooks $12.95 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7935-6
The second volume of Canales and Guarnido's hybrid of hard-boiled detective and anthropomorphic-animal comics is a visual masterpiece. The entire work is constructed around a single joke, but a brilliant one. PI John Blacksad gets involved with...
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Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, Dark Horse, $29.99 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59582-393-9
First making waves a decade ago, Blacksad, created in Spain, published in France, has since garnered well-deserved critical success and status as an international bestseller. Writer Díaz and illustrator Guarnido take the detective noir genre and...
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Juan Díaz Canales and José-Luis Munuera, trans. from the French by Jeremy Melloul. Lion Forge, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-941302-51-4
Canales (Blacksad) and Munuera (Spirou and Fantasio) blend 19th-century American utopian idealism with the preternatural eeriness of the frontier in this dark fantastical tale set in New Fraternity, Ind., a neutral “community experiment” trapped in...
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Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido. . Dark Horse, $17.99 hardcover (72p) ISBN 978-1-61655-525-2
The return of feline 1950's-era gumshoe John Blacksad is always worth looking forward to. In the wake of the tragic events of the previous story, A Silent Hell, Blacksad seeks short-term employment in any field other than private investigation and...
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