Blacksad: hardboiled detective fiction about anthropomorphic animals (no, really)
SOURCE: BOINGBOING • 2010-06-21
TOPICS:
Blacksad • Juanjo Guarnido • Juan Daz Canales • Hardboiled • Canales • Fiction • European Comics • Mass Media
Spanish graphic novelists Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido created their hardboiled, anthropomorphic animal comic Blacksad for the French market in 2000, producing three full-length stories over the next five years (Spanish editions were published shortly after the French market). The individual stories have been published in English, but now, for the first time, Dark Horse has collected them all in a single volume. In the hands of a lesser writer and artist, Blacksad would be a trite f...
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