* Blacksad took Europe by storm in 2000 and sold over 200,000 copies in France alone.

* This internationally acclaimed series has won nearly a dozen prestigious awards - including the Angoulême Comics Festival prizes for Best Series and Best Artwork-and is a three-time Eisner Award nominee. Blacksad In this exceptional noir tour de force from writer Juan D az Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido, the hotly anticipated worldwide bestseller.

* Dark Horse is very proud to present the first three Blacksad stories in a beautiful hardcover collection, completely relettered to the artist's specifications and with the latest album, Red Soul, in English for the very first time. FRATERNITY, another one of his series, with art by Jos-Luis Munuera, is just out from Magnetic Press, and he’s currently writing the new. Whether John Blacksad is falling for dangerous women or getting beaten to within an inch of his life, his stories are, simply put, unforgettable. Spanish writer Juan Diaz Canales gained worldwide acclaim as the scripter on BLACKSAD, his beloved collaboration with Juanjo Guarnido, but he’s a very busy writer with both comics and animation projects. Guarnido reinvents anthropomorphism in these pages, and industry colleagues no less than Will Eisner, Jim Steranko, and Tim Sale are fans! Guarnido's sumptuously painted pages and rich cinematic style bring the world of 1950s America to vibrant life, with Canales weaving in fascinating tales of conspiracy, racial tension, and the 'red scare' Communist witch hunts of the time. Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery, digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets.

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